alt Hacker NewsThe mods certainly do a great job of keeping things running smoothly here, but I wouldn't say it's _primarily_ because of them.
I think it's primarily due to the self-moderation of the community itself, who flag and downvote posts, follow the community guidelines, and are still overall relatively civil compared to other places.
That said, any community can be overrun by an Eternal September event, at which point no moderation or community guidelines can save it. Some veteran members would argue that it's already happened here. I would say we've just been lucky so far that it hasn't. The brutalist UI likely plays a part in that. :)
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This feels like a chat got response.
Restatement of op's point. Small reason of agreement based on widely public information. Last paragraph indicating the future cannot be predicted and couching the entire thing in terms of a guess or self-contradiction.
This is how chatgpt responds to generic asks about things.
I think it has happened actually. Early on HN was almost purely entrepreneurial although through a tech POV. These days, it’s much more general or broadly tech related. The discussion I gather is most people here are tech employees and not necessarily entrepreneurs.
It’s obviously has not gone to hell like the bot ridden examples, but it’s drastically different IMO.