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Nothing in this comment to justify it being downvoted.
by magicbuzz 9y ago
Nothing in this comment to justify it being downvoted.
- H4CK3RM4N 9y agoNothing in this one either. I find Hacker News to be militantly Democrat fairly often.
- adekok 9y agoIt's HN. It's easy to down-vote people who have dissenting opinions. Especially if the poster provides facts and evidence to support their opinions. US politics is become even more of an echo chamber than ever. "My" side is on the side of light, goodness, and rationality. "Their" side is evil, sinister, and denies evidence. The behavior on HN is just one side-effect of this. God forbid we treat others with dignity... or assume that they're different, but honest and well-intentioned. Instead, it's better to treat them like scum, make all kinds of false accusations about them. Not that I've seen a lot of that here.... /s It's better to treat people well, even if you disagree with their position. It worked for a Daryl Davis: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kkk-klu-klux-klan-members-leave-black-man-racism-friends-convince-persuade-chicago-daryl-davis-a7489596.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kkk-klu-klu...
- harry8 9y agoOther than lack of evidence. Well argued anti-wikileaks comments on HN that rely on actual facts don't get down voted. That comment was neither.
- harry8 9y agoOther than lack of evidence. Well argued anti-wikileaks comments on HN that rely on actual facts don't get down voted. That comment was neither.
- dang 9y agoThat comment ended by being heavily upvoted. Please don't break the HN guidelines by taking threads in this inevitably tedious and offtopic direction. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14386533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14386533 and marked it off-topic.