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Forgive me but I don't feel like writing too much about this subject, which is getting pretty old and tiring. So I'll type it here even if I get flagged. The p
by ahbyb 7y ago
Forgive me but I don't feel like writing too much about this subject, which is getting pretty old and tiring. So I'll type it here even if I get flagged.
The political compass can be separated in economical and social issues. Economically, HN is right-wing, as you say. It's full of libertarians. But socially, it's strictly left-wing. Things that get you flagged? Men and women are not the same, we should not turn the world around to appease to non-heterosexuals, perhaps people of different races/ethnic backgrounds/religions are fundamentally different (for better or for worse), all humans aren't worth the same, countries should have the right to manage themselves in any way they want without having human rights shoved into them by the west... Stuff like that cannot be discussed here.
And as I said, I don't know if it's a conscious effort by the mods, or those topics only incite flames so they have to be shut down. What I do know is that just yesterday we got https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21365411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21365411 on the front page (which is, quite literally, left-wing political propaganda) but something that criticised those points would be flagged in minutes.
- thinkingemote 7y agoYou are a very new user and may not know how the site works with regards to downvoting and karma. There are links to follow but the short faq is that regular users get access to downvotes and flags, and thus older users often will flag kill topics that they think will only be a flame war. That, and there are automated things which identify when a topic becomes flame
- ahbyb 7y agoI am not a very new user, in fact by looking at your profile I have been here for much longer than you. Older/active users are predominantly left-wing and use their flag power to flag right-wing points of view, because they deem them as trolling (charitable point of view) or because they want to silence them (uncharitable point of view). Then, mods come and ban those who amass many flags because someone who's got many flags is irredeemably a troll.
- thinkingemote 7y agoI give you 3/10 as your profile say it was created 17 days ago and you made me look and reply. Nice run though! Very skillful
- banmeagaindan2 7y agoLook at yummyfajitas.
- dang 7y agoThat's something of a special case in a lot of ways. And not someone we banned for political reasons. (Edit: I should have said: not someone we moderated for political reasons. We didn't ban him.)
- dang 7y agoNot irredeemably!
- happytoexplain 7y ago>Men and women are not the same, we should not turn the world around to appease to non-heterosexuals, perhaps people of different races/ethnic backgrounds/religions are fundamentally different Obviously these examples are reductive by necessity, and both constructive and insubstantive/hateful posts can be reduced in these ways. Personally, the examples of such downvoted/flagged posts I've seen have almost always betrayed the latter quite unsubtly. (Your choice of wording is also kind of unfair - you've chosen reductions that are, again in my opinion, no-brainers to say "yes" to without context and assuming good faith).