<story><title>Hacker News&apos;s Undocumented Features and Behaviors</title><url>https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkoubsky</author><text>The amount of civility on HN is almost unbelievable. The behavior of the users is one of the HN&amp;#x27;s biggest strengths.</text></item><item><author>rweba</author><text>More and more websites are getting rid of user comments on their websites. Just in the last couple of months the National Review and The Atlantic have got rid of comments.&lt;p&gt;In simple terms they couldn&amp;#x27;t keep up with comment moderation and were not able or willing to invest in enough moderators.&lt;p&gt;So I have to give credit to HN to having one of the most civil comment sections on the internet. What I like about HN is that the comments VERY RARELY descend into the inevitable political sniping that seems to happen almost everywhere else on the internet,  even when discussing controversial topics like Trump, and even the percentage of snarky and dismissive comments is kept pretty low.&lt;p&gt;So, keep it up, dang and sctb!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>I wonder if the idea that you may be interviewing or be interviewed by any of the people you are conversing with means that one “behaves” better?&lt;p&gt;I am convinced that the combination of voting up good comments with strict, clear and fair moderation is an important reason. Add to this that reputation among peers may matter to people and maybe that is the formula.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hacker News&apos;s Undocumented Features and Behaviors</title><url>https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkoubsky</author><text>The amount of civility on HN is almost unbelievable. The behavior of the users is one of the HN&amp;#x27;s biggest strengths.</text></item><item><author>rweba</author><text>More and more websites are getting rid of user comments on their websites. Just in the last couple of months the National Review and The Atlantic have got rid of comments.&lt;p&gt;In simple terms they couldn&amp;#x27;t keep up with comment moderation and were not able or willing to invest in enough moderators.&lt;p&gt;So I have to give credit to HN to having one of the most civil comment sections on the internet. What I like about HN is that the comments VERY RARELY descend into the inevitable political sniping that seems to happen almost everywhere else on the internet,  even when discussing controversial topics like Trump, and even the percentage of snarky and dismissive comments is kept pretty low.&lt;p&gt;So, keep it up, dang and sctb!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mygo</author><text>I once said something slightly political and my comment was downvoted into oblivion.&lt;p&gt;So that helps.</text></comment>