Ask HN: Does HN has content reviewers?

2 pointsnoteanddata5y ago2 comments

how does HN ensure no content is violating the laws? usually maintaining such a big traffic web site would come with lots of spam, porn and so on, right? I assume the ranking algorithm can not delete those contents.

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Hackbraten5y ago· 1 in thread

Users can flag posts. Once a low-quality post gets flagged enough times, I presume it becomes hidden.

noteanddataOP5y ago

so it's purely based on user voting? and there is no human interaction?

that's kind of amazing!

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