alt Hacker NewsAdding to the chorus: if you need to apply a solution like this, it's probably time to walk away from the platform. (Well, the right time to walk away would have been years ago, but...)
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alain_gilbert • today at 8:14 PM
I was actually thinking of making a similar app for hacker news comments. Should we all quit hacker news too?
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api • today at 7:19 PM
Network effects are stronger than we are. People are there because people are there.
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All remotely popular online public spaces are completely infiltrated by bots/propagandists/trolls/morons/etc. If you could successfully filter that type of content out you'd end up with a much larger pool of valid/authentic content to access than if you abandoned the space altogether and switched to some very obscure/niche space that's yet to be manipulated.