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DrewADesign • today at 3:21 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

At least on mobile, the format is much more reminiscent of slashdot.

Man, what a tragic waste of a great .com era community. The whole community self-moderation thing worked ok before the more worthwhile people left. Now they can’t even be arsed to pop by once an hour to remove the multi-page swastika ascii art comments.


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smolder • today at 7:26 AM

It had too high of an influence to integrity ratio, and got infiltrated by motivated actors. That is not an uncommon dynamic. Every democratic forum kind of medium with significance becomes a target for career propagandists and con artists and so on.