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Agree on that. And it kind of becomes too obvious once you start reading HN regularly.
by zzzcpan 10y ago
Agree on that. And it kind of becomes too obvious once you start reading HN regularly.
- dang 10y agoI doubt that. This (apparent) phenomenon is more easily explained by people's difficulties tolerating strongly opposing views. That sounds odd, because we all think we're good at that, but really we're not. Having strongly opposing views in your face is unpleasant, even a sort of painful, and we react to this by constructing stories about how the opponent isn't just wrong but bad (disingenuous, dishonest, astroturfing, a shill). The alternative is to accept that honest, smart, committed people might hold an opposite view to yours, but because our own views are so strongly held, that feels much less likely than it should. In other words, claims that HN is rife with shills, etc., seem mostly to be un-self-reflective indications of how diverse the community is.