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You can certainly not bring your authentic self to HN. Right dang?

• dang 7y ago
  On the contrary, I wish more people would. But sometimes people take authentic self to mean something like purely individual expression, without regard for the commons or the needs of others. I don't think that can be right. Most times when commenters here break the site guidelines, it doesn't feel like they're expressing their authentic self at all, but rather that they're avoiding doing that by attacking someone or something. If they would simply share their actual experience, it would be fine. But that's not so easy for most of us. Most oppositional behaviors are just inversions of conformist behaviors—the same thing, with one bit flipped. Whatever authentic means, that can't be it.