I browse Hacker News with show dead on, and what I see is that increasingly Hacker News is becoming haunted, with more and more undead walking amongst us. Not knowing they are dead; making comments no one will read. Worse, I often find that the comments of the dead are interesting and have value.
I realize they were killed off for a reason, and I realize that moderating is a tedious pain and a real chore, but it makes me feel sad to see that people who have taken the time to enter a good comment in good faith, will never have it seen. It leads me to wonder if their death wasn't a mistake.
And it makes me feel lessened to participate in that.
I wonder if it might be more fair to our undead to either inform them of their ban after a time, to resurrect them after a time, or to give to the rest of us with show dead set a way to give them a resurrection upvote. To indicate they seem to be participating in good faith, and allow a way bring them back to life after enough some period of time.
Anyway, it's not often we can bring the dead back to life, ....
I realize they were killed off for a reason, and I realize that moderating is a tedious pain and a real chore, but it makes me feel sad to see that people who have taken the time to enter a good comment in good faith, will never have it seen. It leads me to wonder if their death wasn't a mistake.
And it makes me feel lessened to participate in that.
I wonder if it might be more fair to our undead to either inform them of their ban after a time, to resurrect them after a time, or to give to the rest of us with show dead set a way to give them a resurrection upvote. To indicate they seem to be participating in good faith, and allow a way bring them back to life after enough some period of time.
Anyway, it's not often we can bring the dead back to life, ....