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I really love this moderation style where you self reference yourself but with added thoughts instead of only pointing at a previous comment or guideline. It shows how moderator (dang) has changed over time after reinforcement learning of hn comments and submissions.

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It's much more reminiscent of BB-style forums where moderators were part of the community and would explain their actions at the time of enforcement. This is unfortunately un-scalable, and so larger communities turn to strictly enforced rules with zero flexibility a la Reddit or moderation via machine classification like FB, Twitter, and YouTube.

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