Ask HN: Does HN has content reviewers?

2 points by noteanddata 5y ago ↗ HN

how does HN ensure no content is violating the laws? usually maintaining such a big traffic web site would come with lots of spam, porn and so on, right? I assume the ranking algorithm can not delete those contents.

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Hackbraten 5y ago ↗

Users can flag posts. Once a low-quality post gets flagged enough times, I presume it becomes hidden.

noteanddata 5y ago ↗

so it's purely based on user voting? and there is no human interaction?

that's kind of amazing!