Comment by mike_hearn

HN has been fundamentally broken for a long time, there's nothing new or special about AI. It just joins a loooong list of topics where people abuse downvotes and flagging to punish people they disagree with.

Ironically, the right fix is to replace human moderation with AI. Every so often I think about creating an HN or old-Reddit style discussion website that gets rid of user driven moderation entirely in favour of "polite but free speech" rules, assessed by LLMs on the fly, along with ways for users to label comments with various adjectives for both their own filtering and training a RecNet. A bit like a mashup of Reddit, HN, Slashdot and new ideas.

Doing that from Europe is tricky due to the lack of the first amendment, but could be worth a try anyway. It could probably be sold to an American if local laws become too difficult.

Any interest in such a site?