Your community site obviously has very different goals than Hacker News. Hacker News's primary value is in having a very high signal:noise ratio - the only way that can continue is by having a very strong community-enforced standard for what counts as 'noise'.
Your community site, I'd guess, is largely about providing support for parents and family of cadets - that's an entirely different set of goals and requires an entirely different set of community values.
It would be a mistake to assume that all communities on the internet behave the same way.
Your community site, I'd guess, is largely about providing support for parents and family of cadets - that's an entirely different set of goals and requires an entirely different set of community values.
It would be a mistake to assume that all communities on the internet behave the same way.