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Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors 8 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to bring up these counterpoints!

why should it have some cost different than the cost of 'promoting' something when you upvote

If this is a blocker, show both! My recommendation to add the tiniest bit of friction only to the anonymous negative was an attempt to reflect existing site guidelines. My apologies if terminology is a distraction; I did add "censuring" as a better word.

mods' argument that meta is bad for actual conversation

Up/down votes are currently only public on the receiver's side, and this meta gamification powers HN. Would revealing the other side of the equation deter abuse of anonymous control (with an acceptable level of side effects)? All I can answer for sure is that intervention for downvote abuse (if any) is behind-the-scenes for now.

[I assume] the pool of eligible downvoters continues to grow; maybe when the time comes the next step will be another moderator rather than crowdsourcing -- the precedent of hiding individual comment scores seems relevant.

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Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI 8 years ago

My takeaway/TL;DR: OpSec is harder vs. AI (ever-vigilant pattern matching) than humans.

But it did drift into discussing a more offensive AI than passive monitoring done today.

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Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors 8 years ago

My intention is to ensure contributing to publicly censoring/censuring costs something (intentionally tiny, but greater than zero/nothing) each time, beyond the one-time minimum karma requirement. "Downvote to disagree" seems unlikely to scale indefinitely, particularly as mobile means less willingness to contribute beyond clicking up/down (specifically now that there are apps catching on that remove all "fat-fingered web UI" friction!).

It's perfectly fine to disagree with this belief; HN itself does!

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Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors 8 years ago

My latest campaign has been to find a way to add the tiniest bit of accountability for downvotes. I believe at a minimum the total number of downvotes given should be shown publicly on user profiles.

As things function now, downvotes are for all intents and purposes anonymous.

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ISP Spying 8 years ago

One time the next-tier tech shut off my WiFi while I was troubleshooting with the entry-level phone support; I hadn't been warned this was an option or would happen so it really rubbed me the wrong way.

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Improving the way kids are taught to read 8 years ago

I would appreciate links to similarly helpful tools for early childhood education for any subject (or language).

"Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" has been recommended ancedata-ly to me.

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