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I don’t think that people disagreeing with you is a failure of social media. If you walk into a bar in an area where HN readers tend to live (San Fran, NYC, Sea
by moorhosj 8y ago
I don’t think that people disagreeing with you is a failure of social media. If you walk into a bar in an area where HN readers tend to live (San Fran, NYC, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Chicago) you would likely get a similar response.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoIt has nothing to do with disagreement. It’s that downvotes are used to silence people. You can make an argument counter to someone else’s without mini-censorship, but that’s hard, you need knowledge and experience for that. Whats easy is just to try and hide anyone else from seeing a counter argument at all.
- moorhosj 8y agoMaybe people downvote because they think it violates the HN commenting rule below? ==Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it.==