Hacker News with Generative AI: Moderation

4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak (knowyourmeme.com)
April 2025 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak refers to the Soyjak.party community's claimed hacking of 4chan in mid April 2025, which included the restoration of the deleted /QA/ board and leaking the emails of 4chan "janitors," who are members of the site's moderation team.
Internet Culture, Online Communities, Hacking, Leaks, Moderation
710 points by LookAtThatBacon 11 days ago | 975 comments
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) (newyorker.com)
Open-plan offices offer few pleasures; one of them is snooping on other people’s browsing habits.
Moderation, Hacker News, Work, Social Media
20 points by flypunk 23 days ago | 1 comments
Elon Musk Pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about Moderation (theverge.com)
Nearly two months ago, Elon Musk went on a public crusade against Reddit.
Social Media, Moderation, Elon Musk, Reddit
43 points by OgsyedIE 30 days ago | 8 comments
A Reddit moderation tool is flagging 'Luigi' as potentially violent content (theverge.com)
Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word “Luigi” as potentially violent — even when the content isn’t.
Reddit, Moderation, AI, Language Models
41 points by Teever 48 days ago | 13 comments
Why is there so much [deleted] on Reddit, they clearly didn't delete themselves? (ycombinator.com)
I can't ask this question on Reddit, because I have serious suspicions and the moderators banned me for fun when I registered on my LanskoyK account. If you open these questions on the Internet by searching on Reddit itself, the main answers are deleted along with the users, it's the same in politics, and not only there.
Reddit, Censorship, Social Media, Moderation, Conspiracy Theories
11 points by Lanskoy_Kirill 48 days ago | 10 comments
Warning users that upvote violent content (reddit.com)
Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed.
Social Media, Moderation, Community, Content Policy
32 points by codetrotter 48 days ago | 26 comments
Warning users that upvote violent content on Reddit (reddit.com)
Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed.
Reddit, Moderation, Content Policy, Community Management
14 points by moonka 50 days ago | 10 comments
See the submissions you have flagged (maybe accidentally) (ycombinator.com)
Please log in.
Hacker News, User Interface, Flagging, Moderation
98 points by superasn 62 days ago | 80 comments
Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help (arstechnica.com)
Mods ask Reddit for tools as generative AI gets more popular and inconspicuous.
Reddit, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Moderation, Content Management
10 points by rntn 68 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: Why was my post on cybersecurity flagged? (ycombinator.com)
Earlier I submitted a story about elections and cybersecurity, it got several dozen upvotes, and then was quickly flagged.
Hacker News, Cybersecurity, Moderation, Voting
12 points by CalRobert 68 days ago | 11 comments
Ask HN: Is the threshold for flagging submissions on HN too low? (ycombinator.com)
I see highly upvoted stories such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035977 getting hidden away because they get flagged, even though the article and discussion are quite sensible.
Hacker News, Community, Moderation, User Experience
16 points by cbg0 72 days ago | 4 comments
Ask HN: Is Hacker News Being Manipulated? (ycombinator.com)
I'm all for keeping the discourse on HackerNews tight, but lately I see dozens of posts a day about serious issues for all of us being flagged.
Hacker News, Censorship, Community, Moderation
59 points by ddxv 81 days ago | 41 comments
Illegal content risk assessment for my self-hosted single-user Mastodon instance (onlinesafetyact.co.uk)
I run a Mastodon instance, for my personal social media presence.
Social Media, Privacy, Security, Moderation, Content Management
4 points by choult 95 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Can Hacker News Stay Above Politics? (ycombinator.com)
@dang does an admirable job moderating this platform. However, the growing overlap between the political stances of prominent technologists and the entanglement of tech with U.S. politics makes it increasingly difficult to separate the two.
Politics, Hacker News, Technology, Moderation
12 points by tyleo 96 days ago | 4 comments
If You've Signed Up for Bluesky, You've Signed Up for Offloadable Moderation (dreamwidth.org)
Hello, you've been (semi-randomly) selected to take a CAPTCHA to validate your requests. Please complete it below and hit the button!
Social Media, Censorship, Moderation
3 points by mawise 114 days ago | 3 comments
So, Bluesky Has an Extortion Problem (tedium.co)
Bluesky, until now, has had a reputation as being a more moderation-friendly alternative to X, Threads, Mastodon, and other social networks.
Social Media, Censorship, Moderation, Bluesky
36 points by coloneltcb 129 days ago | 4 comments
A Change in Moderation Staff of r/Wordpress (reddit.com)
Reddit, Online Communities, Moderation
8 points by ValentineC 192 days ago | 1 comments
Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control (theverge.com)
On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted or restricted for linking to articles with controversial topics.
Social Media, Censorship, Moderation, Meta, Threads
50 points by healsdata 198 days ago | 36 comments
Reddit communities will require permission while going private (techcrunch.com)
Last year, while opposing Reddit’s API changes, a large number of subreddits turned from public to private or turned NSFW (Not Safe for Work) to impact ads on the platform. To prevent this kind of change, Reddit is bringing new rules where moderators will have to submit a request when updating community-type public or private or maturity ratings of SFW (Safe for Work) or NSFW.
Reddit, Moderation, Community Management, Social Media, Platform Changes
13 points by mdotk 207 days ago | 3 comments
Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (theverge.com)
Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first submitting a request to a Reddit admin.
Social Media, Reddit, Censorship, Moderation, Community Management
11 points by rntn 208 days ago | 12 comments
Permission now required to take subreddits private (reddit.com)
Starting today, updating Community Type settings requires a moderator to submit a request.
Reddit, Community Management, Moderation
57 points by focusedone 208 days ago | 35 comments
Moderating LessWrong (2018) (medium.com)
Welcome to the mod team!
Moderation, Online Communities, LessWrong
6 points by yamrzou 219 days ago | 0 comments
New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky (bsky.social)
Social Media, Online Community, Toxicity, Moderation
105 points by runarberg 241 days ago | 178 comments