Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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On the flip side, the least spammy/noisy forums I read are tiny, small enough that they can be moderated by 1-2 people. You see the same thing in other areas too, e.g., Windows has more malware risk than Mac, which has more risk than niche stuff like Haiku or Illumos.
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![". . . It’s why Twitter can’t do as good of a job as we can. I mean, they face, qualitatively, the same types of issues. But they can’t put in the investment. Our investment on safety is bigger than the whole revenue of their company. [laughter] And yeah, we’re operating on a bigger scale, but it’s not like they face qualitatively different questions. They have all the same types of issues that we do."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EF4-teOU4AAX5iE.jpg)
Sure, big platforms have more resources, but they're also bigger targets. I don't think it's obvious a priori which of these factors should win but, with current technology, it looks like being a smaller target is more effective than throwing money at the problem.
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The problem is that in SW, scale is easier and therefore ppl treat it as a second order effect. At true scale, it's hugely important and most people under-estimate this unless they have been directly exposed (e.g., work at a FANG).
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Scale effects are more obvious in semiconductors and traditional engineering. E.g., a cutting edge chip probably contains 10-20B vias. They must ALL work, despite statistical effects conspiring against you. That's an amazing achievement.
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HN users drastically underestimate the difficulty of projects that are outside of their immediate domain - especially because Twitter and Facebook have to be exceedingly cautious about false positives, since those would bring even greater regulatory scrutiny.
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Or, against the ideals of something like twitter, splitting up your usebase so they're not all in one giant channel. At some scale it becomes really difficult to moderate a forum without resorting to blind rule enforcement, at which point snr plummets.
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Not just because there aren't enough people doing moderation, but because it is no longer tractable for people to keep up with most individuals in a community. Which affects the social feedback (self-moderation) as well as "this person is a habitual line-stepper" shared knowledge
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