We put this web site together for you, as well as 200,000 other individuals. that appeal to a wide spectrum of readers. We are always hard at work trying to find interesting hacks, makes, repairs, tweaks, videos, etc. You can’t walk into a business and start screaming about how much they suck without being escorted out immediately. This will be at the discretion of whichever Hackaday staff member happens to see your comment first. If you are posting an empty in-joke (“where’s the Arduino?”), a declaration of “not a hack”, a racist, sexist, completely off topic, platform-hating, or personally insulting comment, your post will be deleted. We realize that we are to blame if our image is this poor, so we are doing something about it.įrom this point moving forward, Hackaday comments will be civil.
Many sites have already laid down the law and are adhering to their goals of keeping things civil. There are many theories for why this happens, but the result is usually the same: rules and moderation. We will if we absolutely have to, but lets try to avoid that.Ĭomment sections and forums have often been a place where negative comments can get out of hand.
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We do not want to implement any sort of G+ integration or similar, nor do we want to require registration to leave a comment. Hackaday should be a home for the entire hacking community and as such, you will always be able to settle in and have a reasonable discussion. Hackaday should be the teacher at the front of the classroom, not the kid in the back throwing wadded up paper at the kids in the front.įirst off, as far as we can foresee, we will never close the comments section of our web site down. We should be at the center of this community, not on the outer edges, reviled by many for the behavior of a few. We’re better than that aren’t we? We are fast, agile and fairly unrestricted in our content. Constructive criticism is good, but insulting and angry deconstruction isn’t helpful to anyone. We have actually had people ask us to remove their projects and comments due to uncivil behavior. We get emails explaining that people have done a hack but don’t really want to post it because the commenters will just tear it apart in an unnecessarily aggressive and negative way.
As our readership grows, we see it more and more often. When we see things like these tweets by, we hang our heads in shame. We’ve nicely tried to steer things to the positive in a variety of ways, from suggesting commenters to be more supportive, jokingly making a troll detector, and simply stating that the comments need to stay “on topic and nice”. even mentioned it back in 2009 when a job applicant expressed concern. We’ve had complaints from readers (yes there are readers that aren’t commenters, thousands of them) and fellow members of the hacking community about this problem for a long time. For some time, Hack a Day has been growing a reputation as the prime source of extremely negative, vulgar, rude, sexist, and inflammatory comments in the hacking community. We’ve talked about this topic at length internally, and we have decided that we’re going to clean up our act. Yes, you all knew this post was coming one day. Sit down for a moment commenters, we need to talk.
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