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With luck many silent but wise people will downvote the one or two noisy fools.

There's a strong temptation to interact, even with someone you suspect is a fool. Resist that temptation, and carefully use a downvote.

There's a great article called "Why We Banned Legos" which covers some of the weird problems that online communities get into. (A small group of children get control of the lego, and decide who can have what pieces, etc.)

(http://www.rethinkingschools.org/restrict.asp?path=archive/2...)

Meatball wiki covers lots of these concepts. I've posted it before. Here it is again.

(http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/)



You're probably right about the silent but wise but unfortunately on HN you cannot be silent and have downvote privileges.

Edit: To be clear, it's not unfortunate that the silent probably won't be downvoting, it's the wise we're missing out on.




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