Yeah well, Yishan failed miserably at topic moderation on Reddit, and generally speaking Reddit has notoriously awful moderation policies that end up allowing users to run their own little fiefdoms just because they name-squatted earliest on a given topic. Additionally, Reddit (also notoriously) allowed some horrendously toxic behavior to continue on its site (jailbait, fatpeoplehate, the_donald, conservative currently) for literal years before taking action, so even when it comes to basic admin activity I doubt he's the guy we should all be listening to.
I think the fact that this is absurdly long and wanders at least twice into environmental stuff (which is super interesting btw, definitely read those tangents) kind of illustrates just how not-the-best Yishan is as a source of wisdom on this topic.
Very steeped in typical SV "this problem is super hard so you're not allowed to judge failure or try anything simple" talk. Also it's basically an ad for Block Party by the end (if you make it that far), so... yeah.
Yeah, it's interesting how much reddit's content moderation at a site-wide level is basically the opposite of what he said in this thread. Yeah, good content moderation should be about policing behavior... so why weren't notorious brigading subs banned?
I think the fact that this is absurdly long and wanders at least twice into environmental stuff (which is super interesting btw, definitely read those tangents) kind of illustrates just how not-the-best Yishan is as a source of wisdom on this topic.
Very steeped in typical SV "this problem is super hard so you're not allowed to judge failure or try anything simple" talk. Also it's basically an ad for Block Party by the end (if you make it that far), so... yeah.