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> Usually agreeing with everyone else is good and disagreeing with the majority will get you downvoted or shadowbanned. Isn't this the inherent nature of a fac
by abraae 9y ago
> Usually agreeing with everyone else is good and disagreeing with the majority will get you downvoted or shadowbanned.
Isn't this the inherent nature of a fact-based platform? And most HN posters are probably quite rational and fact-based?
I wouldn't come to HN if it was a place where people could air stupid, non-fact based opinions and have them treated without criticism or derision. people can hang out in their Facebook group if they want to assert the world is flat.
- lopmotr 9y agoSurely fact-based and conforming to group belief are pretty opposite concepts aren't they? I'm not talking about false facts, but ideas that are outside the fairly clearly delineated (as I found by testing various boundaries and seeing others do so), but arbitrary scope of what's acceptable on HN.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoThe thing is people can be very rational and fact based and still be out of their league in various topics or have strong biases that they do or don't realize. Here's a thread where someone is getting downvoted for asking a question because people don't like the implication of that question, it doesn't fit the biases of the audience. That's not rational and fact based, its suppressing views we don't like. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16337180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16337180 There are many examples like that, and one of the dangers of "rational" communities is we assume we're rational and can't mess it up, when really we aren't any different.