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It's Hacker News, where everything is somehow free speech and if you disagree with extremist conservatism, you're the enemy! /sarcasm In all seriousness though
by PrimHelios 9y ago
It's Hacker News, where everything is somehow free speech and if you disagree with extremist conservatism, you're the enemy! /sarcasm
In all seriousness though, HN has an echo chamber, it's the inverse of Reddit. Reddit and HN function very similarly with their voting systems, and everyone knows Reddit is an extreme-left shithole, but HN is getting more conservative, I've definitely seen a lot more comments that are low-effort and look like they could be from T_D now that Reddit is banning a fuck-ton of them for brigading. Give it a few years and I guarantee this becomes T_Dv2 (or at least a lot more like /pol/).
- LV-426 9y agoYes, it's sad that while so much is discouraged here, far-right/racist comments or voting by certain users is tolerated. Seems like I have at least one such user following me around now, downvoting my comments (my anti-racist comments anyway) in different threads. We'll see if they anonymously announce themselves with this post too. Edit: And right on cue, the test produces a result: mere minutes after making this post - two more downvotes, including a post already downvoted. So either someone is keeping themselves awake 24/7 to religiously reload a dead thread, or my comments page, using multiple accounts to downvote (which while completely insane is still flattering), or it's a bot with no limit (for reasons that can only be guessed at) that checks for new posts and downvotes automatically. (Perhaps more tests are needed, I can then write a Medium and submit the results here.) Either way it's an interestingly hostile response to someone commenting about far-right/racist users at Hackernews.
- PrimHelios 9y agoYeah, someone's definitely following you, my response wasn't downvoted at all. Some people are so childish.