If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.
The other thing, though, is that views differ about how such comments should be classified. What seems like an outrageous "general attack" to one reader (especially if you feel passionately about a topic) may not at all land that way with the rest of the community. For this reason, it's hard to generalize; I'd need to see specific links.
Your anger about his comment suggests that it actually is about pride and identity. I simply don’t buy that most people here argue against AI because they’re worried about software quality and lowering the user experience. It’s the same argument the American Medical Association made in order to allow them to gatekeep physician jobs and limit openings. We’ve had developers working on adtech directly intended to reduce the quality of the user experience for decades now.
> The fact we're now promoting and discussing fucking Twitter threads is absurd.
The ML community is really big on Twitter. I'm honestly quite surprised that you're angry or surprised at this. That means either you're very disconnected from the actual ML community, which is fine of course but then maybe you should hold your opinions a bit less tightly. Alternatively you're ideologically against Twitter which brings me to:
> It's not about pride and identity, you dingus.
Maybe it is? There's a very-online-tech-person identity that I'm familiar with that hates Twitter because they think that Twitter's short post length and other cultural factors on the site contributed to bad discourse quality. I used to buy it, but I've stopped because HN and Reddit are equally filled with terrible comments that generate more heat than light.
FWIW a bunch of ML researchers tried to switch to Bluesky but got so much hate, including death threats, sent at them that they all noped back to Twitter. That's the other identity portion of it that, post Musk there's a set of folks who hate Twitter ideologically and have built an identity around it. Unfortunately this identity also is anti-AI enough that it's willing to act with toxicity toward ML researchers. Tech cynicism and anti-capitalism has some tie-ins with this also.
So IMO there is an identity aspect to this. It might not be the "true hacker" identity that the GP talks about but I do very much think that this pro vs anti AI fight has turned into another culture war axis on HN that has more to do with your identity or tribe than any reasoned arguments.
Please don't cross into personal attack. We ban accounts that do that.
Also, please don't fulminate. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Noted.
General attacks are fine, but we draw the line at personal.
No, that's certainly not the case.
If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.
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The other thing, though, is that views differ about how such comments should be classified. What seems like an outrageous "general attack" to one reader (especially if you feel passionately about a topic) may not at all land that way with the rest of the community. For this reason, it's hard to generalize; I'd need to see specific links.
Your anger about his comment suggests that it actually is about pride and identity. I simply don’t buy that most people here argue against AI because they’re worried about software quality and lowering the user experience. It’s the same argument the American Medical Association made in order to allow them to gatekeep physician jobs and limit openings. We’ve had developers working on adtech directly intended to reduce the quality of the user experience for decades now.
> The fact we're now promoting and discussing fucking Twitter threads is absurd.
The ML community is really big on Twitter. I'm honestly quite surprised that you're angry or surprised at this. That means either you're very disconnected from the actual ML community, which is fine of course but then maybe you should hold your opinions a bit less tightly. Alternatively you're ideologically against Twitter which brings me to:
> It's not about pride and identity, you dingus.
Maybe it is? There's a very-online-tech-person identity that I'm familiar with that hates Twitter because they think that Twitter's short post length and other cultural factors on the site contributed to bad discourse quality. I used to buy it, but I've stopped because HN and Reddit are equally filled with terrible comments that generate more heat than light.
FWIW a bunch of ML researchers tried to switch to Bluesky but got so much hate, including death threats, sent at them that they all noped back to Twitter. That's the other identity portion of it that, post Musk there's a set of folks who hate Twitter ideologically and have built an identity around it. Unfortunately this identity also is anti-AI enough that it's willing to act with toxicity toward ML researchers. Tech cynicism and anti-capitalism has some tie-ins with this also.
So IMO there is an identity aspect to this. It might not be the "true hacker" identity that the GP talks about but I do very much think that this pro vs anti AI fight has turned into another culture war axis on HN that has more to do with your identity or tribe than any reasoned arguments.