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I believe you when you say that you notice you get down voted for expressing a conservative view on HN, but I seem to notice the opposite. HN has a way of defe

I believe you when you say that you notice you get down voted for expressing a conservative view on HN, but I seem to notice the opposite. HN has a way of defending Trump and quickly down voting direct criticism of conservatives, at least in my own n=1 experience. edit: ...and this comment was flagged. Case in point.

ufmace 6y ago
Well I find that a bit odd. But I vouched your comment anyways, because I think it's better to discuss these things than try to flag and ban the other side.
- ciarannolan 6y ago
  Agreed! I upvoted both of your comments too.
ARandomerDude 6y ago
Conservative != Trump. I actually never say anything about Trump (breaking the rule here), because: (1) conservative ideas don't depend on Trump for their origin or continuance (2) Trump isn't really that conservative anyway, and (3) he is such a polarizing figure that it's almost impossible to have a rational conversation (with either side) once you mention him.
dang 6y ago
You guys are probably both running into 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 can give you long, long lists of commenters complaining with complete certainty in the bitterest terms that HN is extremely biased in favor of $side and the mods are totally biased in favor of $side, but $side varies entirely with the political feelings of the perceiver. This is one of the most reliable phenomena that exists on HN. I wrote a long thing about this earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23530467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23530467.
- ciarannolan 6y ago
  That's interesting, thanks for linking your comment. I believe it 100%, which is why I tried to discount my own claim too ("n=1" etc). >We don't see the world as it is, but as we are.

ufmace 6y ago

Well I find that a bit odd. But I vouched your comment anyways, because I think it's better to discuss these things than try to flag and ban the other side.

ciarannolan 6y ago
Agreed! I upvoted both of your comments too.

ARandomerDude 6y ago

Conservative != Trump. I actually never say anything about Trump (breaking the rule here), because: (1) conservative ideas don't depend on Trump for their origin or continuance (2) Trump isn't really that conservative anyway, and (3) he is such a polarizing figure that it's almost impossible to have a rational conversation (with either side) once you mention him.

dang 6y ago

You guys are probably both running into 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 can give you long, long lists of commenters complaining with complete certainty in the bitterest terms that HN is extremely biased in favor of $side and the mods are totally biased in favor of $side, but $side varies entirely with the political feelings of the perceiver. This is one of the most reliable phenomena that exists on HN. I wrote a long thing about this earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23530467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23530467.

ciarannolan 6y ago
That's interesting, thanks for linking your comment. I believe it 100%, which is why I tried to discount my own claim too ("n=1" etc). >We don't see the world as it is, but as we are.