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Hi dang, Let me preface this by thanking you for the effort you've put into building this unique and invaluable community. I'm sorry to occasionally make your

Hi dang, Let me preface this by thanking you for the effort you've put into building this unique and invaluable community. I'm sorry to occasionally make your life difficult, as you mention this isn't the first time I've been disciplined. I recognize the pressures that lead you to censor certain accounts - however given the amount of soft power that you wield, I would kindly ask you to keep in mind that consistently and primarily suppressing only one set of views, which are potentially held by 25-50% of the population, breeds extremism. The fact that these rational views are effectively banned from every major platform only forces the polarization that we are witnessing in our society.

dang 7y ago
You lose me here: > consistently and primarily suppressing only one set of views That's nothing like how HN is moderated. You may be falling prey to the notice-dislike bias: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... I don't actually know what your views are, but wherever they land, I can guarantee you a long list of commenters complaining that "suppression" on HN goes exactly the other way.
- twomoretime 7y ago
  Is there anyway to generate a list of flagged posts to perform a more rigorous statistical analysis? I understand what you're saying, and I viewed the collection of contradicting examples, but it is unlikely that there isn't a predominant set of viewpoints on HN. Without choosing a side, there's no question that user flagging and mod moderation is likely to fall somewhere on the ideological spectrum and I'd love a chance to determine where.