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> HN is full of Authoritarians That's...definitely not how I'd stereotype HN posters in general.

• ur-whale 7y ago
  He didn't stereotype HN posters. He just said there's a lot of authoritarians on HN, which I believe to be factually correct: most libertarian-oriented comments on HN get downvoted into the ground. It doesn't take even a majority to do that, just a large enough rabid mob.
  • InitialLastName 7y ago
    > most libertarian-oriented comments on HN get downvoted into the ground Speaking of rabid mobs, most anti-capitalism-oriented comments get voted into the ground too. It's almost as if HN has a large group of people who are trying to discourage political fights.
  • PhasmaFelis 7y ago
    See, I would have said that the "rabid mob" on HN is biased towards free-market libertarianism. The Silicon Valley crowd loves it.
    • ur-whale 7y ago
      From experience, there are fare less libertarians in the "Silicon valley crowd" than many believe. Silicon Valley average tech. employees crowd is largely made of left-wingers, most of which are as far away from classical liberalism as one can be without being a card-carrying communist.
    • syshum 7y ago
      As a life long libertarian and many many years reading HN, HN is in no way a libertarian community, If you believe HN is libertarian you would be in for an extreme shock if you encountered a real libertarian community Nor is Silicon Valley anywhere CLOSE to libertarianism, Silicon Valley is extreme left Authoritarian While HN does love markets (though nor really free markets) most of HN is Socially Authoritarian left