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I recently wrote some comments that are contrarian in respect to this topic. Frankly, my perspective is that the HN hive mind just downvotes anything that does
by berdario 6y ago
I recently wrote some comments that are contrarian in respect to this topic.
Frankly, my perspective is that the HN hive mind just downvotes anything that does not toes the US line (there are also upvotes obviously, but other topics don't elicit such knee jerk reactions).
It's really stifling discourse. I wouldn't mind it that much, if the current cold/trade war wouldn't have real world effects (and obviously, I hope it won't degenerate into a different kind of war)
- dang 6y agoThis perspective, that HN "always" does $unlikeable-thing, is a function of the notice-dislike bias: since we're all much more likely to notice (and weight more heavily) the things that rub us the wrong way, people on different sides of an argument will derive completely different generalizations from exactly the same comment set. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=notice%20dislike%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- berdario 6y agoYou're right, of course. I still think that the trend is there (in this thread, the comments aren't very nuanced and before I commented, the ratio of "against:non-against China" was 3:1, but now the ratio is much more even) Without getting numbers for it, not much can be done to understand/address the situation