4 ms·
> We need better mechanisms to express disagrements than the status quo without being belittled, insulted, shunned, disrespected and ousted We do have such mec
by kumarvvr 6y ago
> We need better mechanisms to express disagrements than the status quo without being belittled, insulted, shunned, disrespected and ousted
We do have such mechanisms. In the olden days, opinions were expressed through slow moving mediums such as news papers and press conferences. Those who wanted to criticize them had channels such as letters to newspaper editors, radio calls, etc, to express disagreement or point out flaws. This was good and bad. Good because you had to invest a finite amount of time and resources to express counter opinion. Bad because it has the effect of amplifying the voices of fanatics.
However, with today's friction free methods to express opinion and social media echo chambers that amplify everything, there is just too much noise.
I just hate Twitter and Facebook. Their ultimate contribution to society is sum negative.
- systemvoltage 6y agoYou're absolutely spot on. We need to come up with better etiquettes for debates of difficult situations on the internet than this Twitter/FB nonsense and in a more formal forum. There should be rules of engagement with freedom to express disagreements backed by logic, reasoning and data.
- okaram 6y agoThat's cool ... just ignore twitter/FB. Do you realize yc is kinda social media too? And we're expressing opinions without people being too belittled/shunned ...
- AntiImperialis4 6y ago>And we're expressing opinions without people being too belittled/shunned ... No. Unpopular opinions get flagged and shadow-banned instantly here.
- dang 6y agoYou're getting banned because you've been serially creating accounts to break the site guidelines with. Would you please stop doing that? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- AntiImperialis5 6y agoSo, why did my first account get banned?
- dang 6y agoWhat was your first account?
- AntiImperialist 6y agoThis one: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AntiImperialist https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AntiImperialist There was no explanation. The shadow-ban must have happened shortly after I posted an unpopular comment which received a lot of downvotes, which is why I assumed that it had to be some sort of automatic action.
- pmiller2 6y agoDo I need to comment on the irony of a killed/flagged comment replying to yours stating that unpopular opinions are killed or flagged here immediately?
- newen 6y agoCue someone replying that they only flagged and downvoted it because it was lol so ironic.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]