3 ms·

You've written a lot of words which fail to address anything in real life: there are plenty of openly racist, misogynistic comments on HN that don't get flagged

• YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago
  And there are plenty more of openly racist, misogynistic comments on HN that get flagged to death. Plus, the accounts that post only such comments get shadowbanned and their throwaways get shadobanned. Then those that get their comments treated liek that complain that their freedom of speech is impinged upon or whatever and they post comments that they preface with "let the downvotes begin" and they get downvoted not because of what they say, that nobody reads, but because of the preface, that everybody knows is a sign of an unworthy comment. Clearly, some escape. There's one moderator and a community of users who can't always be vigilant or always have time to read through every polarised screed at the bottom of a ten-comment thread. So yeah, some stuff that should really be buried, stays in the open. So, what?