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Funny how we have two fresh accounts posting in this discussion, one of which insists that the study authors must have an "agenda", and another of which gives a

Funny how we have two fresh accounts posting in this discussion, one of which insists that the study authors must have an "agenda", and another of which gives an "aside" that exploitative slumlords "are almost all involved with (((close-knit religious groups)))". Sounds like the ruling class is a bit agitated that we're noticing what's going on, and wants to misdirect our attention.

krapp 8y ago
I mean, one or both of those accounts could be your own alts, as far as anyone knows. I don't think the "ruling class" are so concerned about people "noticing what's going on" that they sent shills to create a couple of green accounts to post on Hacker News. That the rich exploit the poor is not exactly a shocking revelation to anyone. Certainly, you're not helping keep things focused by implying shills and saboteurs are at work here.
- satokema 8y ago
  the "ruling class" would probably be not really interested in dealing with housing at all and would be more worried about people pointing out the lack of diversity at top C-level positions at major influential corporations.
  - eli_gottlieb 8y ago
    That's... the exact opposite of how it works.
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dang 8y ago
On HN, please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. In this case it led to a bad misunderstanding elsewhere in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470818). Also, could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? You've been breaking them, and we need you to fix that. One thing they ask you not to do is insinuate astroturfing without evidence, as you did in this comment here. Plenty of explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturfing https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... More seriously, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. A certain amount of politics and ideology is unavoidable with many topics that appear on HN, but when this crosses into being the primary reason why someone uses the site, that user has left the realm of intellectual curiosity and shifted to the battlefield—exactly what we're trying to avoid HN turning into. For that reason, we ban accounts when they cross that line. More explanation on that if anyone wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20primarily%20test https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

krapp 8y ago

I mean, one or both of those accounts could be your own alts, as far as anyone knows. I don't think the "ruling class" are so concerned about people "noticing what's going on" that they sent shills to create a couple of green accounts to post on Hacker News. That the rich exploit the poor is not exactly a shocking revelation to anyone. Certainly, you're not helping keep things focused by implying shills and saboteurs are at work here.

satokema 8y ago
the "ruling class" would probably be not really interested in dealing with housing at all and would be more worried about people pointing out the lack of diversity at top C-level positions at major influential corporations.
- eli_gottlieb 8y ago
  That's... the exact opposite of how it works.

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dang 8y ago

On HN, please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. In this case it led to a bad misunderstanding elsewhere in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470818). Also, could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? You've been breaking them, and we need you to fix that. One thing they ask you not to do is insinuate astroturfing without evidence, as you did in this comment here. Plenty of explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturfing https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... More seriously, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. A certain amount of politics and ideology is unavoidable with many topics that appear on HN, but when this crosses into being the primary reason why someone uses the site, that user has left the realm of intellectual curiosity and shifted to the battlefield—exactly what we're trying to avoid HN turning into. For that reason, we ban accounts when they cross that line. More explanation on that if anyone wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20primarily%20test https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....