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		dang on April 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is content moderation a dead end? I agree that being specific about content makes things easier, but HN is not so specific. Anything intellectually interesting is on topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and that makes for a lot of long, difficult explanations - e.g.: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

intended on April 13, 2021 | [–]

Greater institutions have fallen; thats when we got the term Eternal September. It just takes the right influx of users to overcome the human moderators.

proc0 on April 13, 2021 | [–]

Sure, maybe it's not that constrained, but consider something like memes, which is expected of many sites, but definitely not here.

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