{"id":46499025,"user":"_vqpz","time":1767622849,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

Nothing about this forum is distinguished. Are you being serious? It's just reddit for tech nerds with the same problems","comments":[{"id":46499249,"user":"greenavocado","time":1767624028,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

The moderation team makes all the difference in the world.","comments":[{"id":46499289,"user":"_vqpz","time":1767624225,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

The moderation team makes no difference on how people here interact with each other and the posts.","comments":[{"id":46499539,"user":"greenavocado","time":1767625315,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

It absolutely does","comments":[{"id":46503421,"user":"phantasmish","time":1767640965,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

Any troll or shitposter who can't operate extremely effectively on HN isn't very good at it.

The site basically has a house style for those activities, and you can go crazy insulting and stirring people up all day long and not get moderated for it, as long as you stick to the approved style. Bonus: if you're not just half-competent, but actually good, you can probably get people calling you out on your behavior moderated, if they don't beat around the bush about it in just the right ways! That's why the majority of posts on here are trolling and shitposting, or fallout thereof.

If you stay under the moderation radar, trolling this place is like shooting fish in a barrel, even easier than most sites (no, I've not done it, but it's very obviously most of what goes on here). If the site cared about this, it'd have ignore-lists.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":3,"url":"item?id=46503421"},{"id":46499765,"user":"_vqpz","time":1767626334,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

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> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html","comments":[{"id":46506729,"user":"_vqpz","time":1767656112,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

I didn't say it was turning into reddit, I said they suffer from the same problems","comments":[{"id":46507903,"user":"otterley","time":1767665327,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

That sounds like a distinction without a difference. The point of the guidelines isn’t about the specific words chosen; it’s about making meta-complaints about HN itself.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":6,"url":"item?id=46507903"}],"comments_count":1,"level":5,"url":"item?id=46506729"}],"comments_count":2,"level":4,"url":"item?id=46501908"}],"comments_count":3,"level":3,"url":"item?id=46499765"}],"comments_count":5,"level":2,"url":"item?id=46499539"}],"comments_count":6,"level":1,"url":"item?id=46499289"}],"comments_count":7,"level":0,"url":"item?id=46499249"}],"comments_count":8,"url":"item?id=46499025"}

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