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dang has done a phenomenal job at moderating this site, and I trust his judgement. It is heavily moderated, and that's a good thing to keep it focused. Too much twitter drama would be lame. But this feels like an important moment.

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I generally agree, but I also think that a certain subset of political beliefs get upvoted here that creates a real echo chamber, and that there's this idea of a "middle path" rationality that is assumed, but doesn't actually exist. It's a class of problem I think could be classified as a "I don't have an accent" problem. I wrote to dang directly about this, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30252817

I think there's probably a certain class of articles, critical of paulg and hn and the hn community's "accent" that get flagged and downvoted here, by people and moderators. And, a certain class of articles that always get uncritically upvoted.

In my experience, you can post stuff that's politically as far left as it gets, so long as you phrase it politely.

I am deeply concerned that only one person is holding this ship on course, and that person's time is running out.

IIRC there’s more than one mod but dang is the most visible. sctb used to be another mod but it looks like he left in 2019.

It is?

(well I guess everyone's is)

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