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the problem is that those comments are never downvoted. they are ALWAYS upvoted. so is it unfair to say a community that mostly upvotes plain xenophobic commen

the problem is that those comments are never downvoted. they are ALWAYS upvoted. so is it unfair to say a community that mostly upvotes plain xenophobic comments has an issue? and it's not from now -- i've been here for a while and every single time h1b is mentioned, there are upvoted comments saying weird stuff that is never removed.

dang 6y ago
> those comments are never downvoted. they are ALWAYS upvoted That's far from the case. You might be running into the notice/dislike bias, which unfortunately tends to distort perceptions and leads to false feelings of generality. 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... From there it leads to painful feelings about the community, which is particularly unfortunate. I wrote about this earlier today in a different context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701584.
- aerovistae 6y ago
  Hi, I'm just commenting here because I don't know any alternative way to reach the moderation of hacker news. There was a thread earlier today on the topic of "Ask HN: what do you consider to be essential to being a good programmer" and it vanished in the middle of me having typed out a long response. I couldn't find it afterwards. Do you know where it went or why it was removed?
  - tomhoward 6y ago
    It’s currently at the top of the “ask” page - https://news.ycombinator.com/ask https://news.ycombinator.com/ask It also appears via this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=false&query=essential%20programmer&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
  - dang 6y ago
    > I don't know any alternative way to reach the moderation of hacker news This is explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, which is something everyone posting here should be familiar with. There is also a Contact link in the footer.
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dang 6y ago

> those comments are never downvoted. they are ALWAYS upvoted That's far from the case. You might be running into the notice/dislike bias, which unfortunately tends to distort perceptions and leads to false feelings of generality. 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... From there it leads to painful feelings about the community, which is particularly unfortunate. I wrote about this earlier today in a different context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701584.

aerovistae 6y ago
Hi, I'm just commenting here because I don't know any alternative way to reach the moderation of hacker news. There was a thread earlier today on the topic of "Ask HN: what do you consider to be essential to being a good programmer" and it vanished in the middle of me having typed out a long response. I couldn't find it afterwards. Do you know where it went or why it was removed?
- tomhoward 6y ago
  It’s currently at the top of the “ask” page - https://news.ycombinator.com/ask https://news.ycombinator.com/ask It also appears via this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=false&query=essential%20programmer&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
- dang 6y ago
  > I don't know any alternative way to reach the moderation of hacker news This is explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, which is something everyone posting here should be familiar with. There is also a Contact link in the footer.
- deleted 6y ago
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