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I understand the topic quite well. I suggested Reddit in 2005, wrote Hacker News in 2007, and moderated it till 2014.
What I'm suggesting is that we not merely try to prevent meanness, but make that the *primary* design goal.
But that's still nowhere near the new idea you presented it as. And HN and Reddit are...really not good qualifications, sorry.
Both of them lack multiple basic bare minimum design concepts to ameliorate what you call "nastiness". Famously so, even.
if you build networks prizing "civility", you have the problem of: by whose standards? What HN considers "civil" is the neutrality...
of the default, and the elevation of "rational discourse" (read: prioritizing culturally dominant emotions)!= facilitating community
up/down vote style moderation on social networks makes problem worse, not better! If your cred is HN and Reddit, you're at 101 level.
I mean, Reddit is one of the canonical "what not to do" examples for minimizing online abuse!
HN is a living example of the heckler's veto and how you can be as vicious as you want if you're not "emotional" while you do *
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