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My comment is tagged with 'flagged' and set to the lowest score. Obviously these forums lean young and college students which subscribe generally to College ide
by drzaiusapelord 10y ago
My comment is tagged with 'flagged' and set to the lowest score. Obviously these forums lean young and college students which subscribe generally to College identity politics which is very far left.
Meanwhile, extremely low effort posts of "Shut up, Socialism works, there's nothing to see here," are voted up uncritically.
Tell me again how these forums aren't biased?
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- tptacek 10y agoI'm no socialist, and I'm one of the people who flagged it. Partisan ideological posts are toxic to HN, no matter who's ideology they represent.
- dogma1138 10y agoWhile there are some issues, it's also often not what you say but how you say it. I do dislike the fact that there is no way to "vouch" for flagged comments, and that -10 auto flag kills it. While I can't comment much on the bias there is some sort of a group mentality to downvote comments that already have been downvoted once or twice, maybe people think they are helping to "clean up" the discussion. I often wondered how things would work if HN would implement an "score hidden" policy for new comments (say first 6 hours) with the score not affecting the position or the font of the comment if that would reduce the amount of flagged comments on the board or not.