Relative to other large social media sites (reddit, Tumblr, Twitter pre-Elon, etc.) HN is a bastion of free speech. Reddit being possibly the least free of them all.
Reddit is petty free speech from the site admin perspective. The vast majority of moderation on Reddit is done by the community (i.e. subreddit mods), no one is stopping you from creating your own free speech absolutists subs.
HN is much more heavily moderated than those websites. Which is a good thing, it's why conversations here tend to be of a higher quality. I don't think the HN style of moderation would scale to places like Reddit even if they wanted it.
>HN is much more heavily moderated than those websites.
This couldn't be further from the truth. Reddit is orders of magnitude more heavily moderated than HN. Your average run of the mill subreddit has more moderators than the entirety of HN.
>Which is a good thing, it's why conversations here tend to be of a higher quality.
I think the conversations here are higher because of the userbase, not dang's moderation. The site doesn't lend itself to the toxic userbase that reddit and tumblr has.
>I don't think the HN style of moderation would scale to places like Reddit even if they wanted it.
There are subreddits with more scale than HN, with more moderation. Scale is definitely not an issue.
Don’t forget that HN is also self moderated through upvotes/downvotes (I’ve never used Reddit, does it have similar?). This does two things IMO—first, low quality posts become less and less readable which reduces incentive to make inflammatory posts, but second it also imposes self moderation (except for users that resort to throwaway accounts) since losing too many karma points removes some of your ability to participate on the site.
> but second it also imposes self moderation (except for users that resort to throwaway accounts) since losing too many karma points removes some of your ability to participate on the site.
Uh, absolutely not the case. All you need to do is to not post bullshit all the time to be in positive on karma.
It's even worse on reddit (if you want closest approximate it would be like HN instance-per topic(subreddit)) where karma is global so you could get karma on one subreddit and lose on another and be net positive even easier.
the up/down vote thing mostly works but in bigger communities it quickly turns from "quality/garbage comment" to "I agree/I disagree" button
Unfortunately the Mastodon instance that Oxide decided on is flooded with leftist activists and SJW types. One of the rules is a leftist shibboleth, "no colonialism".
That rule makes no sense in the context of a social media site.
Gun owners don't need more guns, they need therapy!
(This post is hilarious since gun owners frequently call shooting "therapy". Many gun owners would unironically say/type this exact same comment. Congrats, you played yourself.)
>I personally think therapy is great and will help gun owners protect themselves from the greatest threat they face, which is their mental health!
"I personally think therapy (shooting targets) is great and will help gun owners protect themselves from the greatest threat they face, which is their mental health (greatest threat all Americans face)!"
Imagine posting exactly what a pro-gun target shooter would post and think it's snark. Congrats, you just played yourself again. Thanks for agreeing.
I've banned the other account for breaking the site guidelines, but you also broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. That's seriously not ok.
I don't want to ban you because you have more history here and most of your comments have been fine, but if you would please review https://hackernews.hn/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it. Note these, for example:
"Don't be snarky."
"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
An aspect that no one here has mentioned but absolutely is a major reason:
Tech teams are littered with chronically online SJWs. When something as innocuous as an email about Domain Driven Design [0] can quickly go off the rails and be derided as misogynistic, it's tough to communicate. Executives are not used to dealing with groups that have such thin skin. You constantly have to walk on eggshells around tech teams, and even then something/anything may still trigger them.
I had a (fantastic) VP of Eng that of about 100 engineers. He quipped about how being a parent prepared him for leading an org and several people got their feelings hurt thinking he called everyone childish. It became a thing he had to publicly apologize for. Ffs.
This article sucks. Lots of bad info from an inexperienced plumber.
How the US military, nuclear power plants, and plumbers worth their weight in salt do fittings: 3-4 times around the (male) fitting with PTFE tape, then a light amount of pipe dope on top of the PTFE tape.
Also, DO NOT buy the cheap PTFE tape as suggest. Buy the milspec tape. Your big box store will have both and you'll know where that money (a couple dollars at most) went.
Milspec, lol. Doesn't that normally equal as cheap as they can get away with?
There is a high-density thread sealing PTFE tape that works a bit better than the el' cheapo generic white stuff (although it's usually white too). Anything marked as such should be sufficient unless you are working on an oil rig or nuclear reactor.
EDIT: Unless the package has MIL-T-27730 on the tape, labeling it milspec has no meaning.
3-4 times around the (male) fitting with PTFE tape, then a light amount of pipe dope on top of the PTFE tape.
That doesn't sound like a good idea at all. The whole idea behind PTFE (aka Teflon) is that it reduces friction because nothing, including pipe dope, sticks to it. What value does the pipe dope add to a properly-wrapped fitting?
Mate, I'm not a plumber and it's 100% written from the perspective of someone who is not a plumber. This article is not an instruction manual for plumbers, but a blog of what a non-plumber found to work for him.
>“Latine” and “Latin@” (and similar constructions for other -o/-a words) are not unheard of in some actual Latin American countries, though.
"Latrine", " Latin@", and "Latinx" are almost entirely unheard of in actual Latin American countries, though.
The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language is the governing body that defines what official Spanish is. If you can find a single academy that lists "Latinx" or "Latin@" as official Spanish, I'll eat my hat.
These neologisms are nothing more than US leftist linguistic imperialism.
I don't use Apple products so I can't help you there. I assume it's doing some networking madness to expose a Linux VM through a bridge or something similar.
