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You've just voiced the thing I dislike most about the HN. And I do not fully agree with "Gackle and Bell, by contrast, practice a personal, focussed, and slow approach to moderation". The faceless "we" they love so much does not appear very personal to me.

Disclaimer: I have an axe to grind having my account with 9k+ karma and dating back to 2009 banned for whatever. Despite that I am trying my best to look at the situation objectively and I still do not like it.

It is popular to compare reddit with HN and my take would be like this: reddit is like a part of the Universe where stars are still (maybe moving a bit past this though) born, and there is life and dynamics. HN, otoh, seems to be inching closer and closer to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

>>rimliu+(OP)
Agreed, HN's lack of transparency is slowly killing it. You can see the discussions becoming more one-dimensional every day.

>>radcon+ff
You're being downvoted because you're hitting on a trope/cliche that's called out in the rules, and while I doubt HN is dying from a user engagement perspective, I do believe the comments are less filled with value than they have been in the past, given how negativity dang sees conflict.

Healthy conflict is good, but I've participated in healthy conflict here and was stopped by dang because of it.

>>dimino+fl
> I've participated in healthy conflict here and was stopped by dang because of it.

Where did I do that?

>>dang+p15
The majority of the time you've killed my comments.

>>dimino+tbc
What comments? That's not something we commonly do, unless we've banned the account.

>>dang+aKc
It's rarely/ever paid off to engage with you on these issues, but if you genuinely do care, I have a 10 year history in which some of my comments have been killed, and in the majority of those comments it's been because of the very existence of disagreement, not because of the nature of how the disagreement was playing out.

>>dimino+OAl
Any description of why comments are killed by anyone other than the people who killed it is imputing motives based on almost no direct evidence.

>>dimino+OAl
It's impossible to say for sure without links, but those comments were probably killed either by user flags or by software, rather than by moderators. We don't typically kill comments outright unless we're banning the account.

>>dragon+YAl
I'm curious about why you're on this 10 day old thread.

>>dang+Tjn
This is entirely false, and I'm not sure why you're saying it. I literally have emails from you saying exactly the opposite.

>>dimino+itn
As I said, I'm speaking generally. In the absence of links, which you've not provided, I have no idea which posts you're specifically talking about.

Edit: out of curiosity, I looked through your history. All the dead comments back to about 2014 were killed by user flags. Before that, there are a bunch of dead comments but I didn't see signs that moderators had killed them; my guess is that you were banned for a while.