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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3546 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How the language police are perverting liberalism

Not to defend Hubski but to get your thinking cap on:

It's my considered opinion that there was nothing about Digg or Reddit that gave any advantage to thoughtful discussion over thoughtless discussion. I do think that Hubski has a tiny leg up: the fact that you can't vote past 8 and can't downvote at all eliminates most of the magnifiers that refine Reddit and Digg comments to the point of circlejerking.

However, architecture only goes so far. At some level, if we want this place to keep from becoming a smaller Reddit we need to pay attention to what works and what doesn't.