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Part of the role of Reddit, HN and other social media is to motivate you, the collected developers out there, to write your own version and fix all the problems you see in the system (software + admins + "culture") as it is now.

That includes me. Maybe after the wedding, kid's baseball game, co-worker's going away party, and stuff this weekend.

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Problem is, fixing the software won't fix how it's misused. I come here both for the community and the network. Added features would be nice, but my rather small list of gripes is primarily with the utterly opaque, broken, and sometimes downright moronic way it's run sometimes.

It's not broken enough to drive most people away, and that's its prime benefit. But what I'd give for the same site, moderated differently...

That's an insightful analysis.

For me, the question is knowing what exactly I'd do differently. On a lot of crucial points, I don't know and don't know how to find out (except experimentation).

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