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I see political and ideological posts all the time on HN. Sure most of them are of the progressive left wing variety, which seems perfectly fine with the mods.

I see political and ideological posts all the time on HN. Sure most of them are of the progressive left wing variety, which seems perfectly fine with the mods. I don’t even think this post was all that flamebaity. Is anything I mentioned actually inaccurate? Is it the tone (which is simply a copy of the post I replied to)?

dang 7y ago
What made it flamebaity was the swerve to a partisan angle plus the snark plus the denunciatory rhetoric. You're right that the GP comment wasn't great either, but these things are all matters of degree and your reply was several degrees worse. If you look more closely you'll notice that we moderate plenty of political and ideological posts of the progressive left wing variety. Perceptions of bias are distorted by a strong tendency everyone has to feel like their side is discriminated against while the side they dislike gets favored. I've written a ton about this if you or anyone want further explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20%22hostile%20media%20effect%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20%22cognitive%20bias%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...