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*incoming nitpick >If you're civil, respectful, and on-topic you're seemingly allowed to present just about any idea. HN heavily follows the religion of scien
by artificialLimbs 6y ago
*incoming nitpick
>If you're civil, respectful, and on-topic you're seemingly allowed to present just about any idea.
HN heavily follows the religion of scientism. If you reject science, you will be downvoted nearly immediately. HN forgets that the reason that we don't fog our kids with DDT anymore is because 'settled science' was questioned. Yes I am generalizing by using "HN".
This is still, however, one of my favorite platforms to read.
- CivBase 6y agoYeah. I'm more focused on mods removing content and suspending/banning users, though; not just other users downvoting posts.
- xmprt 6y agoThat's the site's "algorithm" (ie, the audience) at work and not anything the mods are doing.
- kortilla 6y agoDownvotes aren’t the moderation the op is talking about.