I believe it would be an interesting implementation for HN. I rarely comment, but when I do, I think it would be interesting to read the comments of users who upvoted or downvoted, potentially gauging the reaction behind their vote, especially if they choose not to reply. I don’t know of a website that does something similar, and flaws might exist, such as commenters retaliating against recurring downvotes from specific individuals. However, implementing something like a timeout for downvoting the person who has downvoted could be considered. Even seeing who is upvoting whom could be interesting, and I’m sure collecting and analyzing such data would be useful for mods to prevent abuse of the voting system if not already done. Another ideal situation is to have a comment field that could be required for downvoting to possibly inform why.
Seems like all domains that are either short or catchy are taken and nothing exists if I go to them. I'm curious what you all think. Should a policy be made to stop the bad behaviour? Would it make the internet better or would things stay the same? Sure, someone can always make a long domain name or use .whatever but it seems like the popular websites rarely ever follow that example.
A friend informed me that AI is being used to separate certain individuals in online spaces. He expresses this use of the technology is quite new and is an evolution of shadowbanning certain persons that otherwise add toxicity to discussions. The persons shadowbanned in this instance are tricked into assuming they're not banned by fake interactions generated by the AI towards real content while nonshadowbanned users interact with each other to the content. My friend said the technology is just the beginning and it eventually will be used for certain demographics throughout online spaces for certain governments. I'm curious how ethical is this?
