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Says a lot about the HN community that a lot of people need to post under throwaways because there are legit others would otherwise go after them or their emplo
by haunter 6y ago
Says a lot about the HN community that a lot of people need to post under throwaways because there are legit others would otherwise go after them or their employers
Say whatever you want about reddit but at least it's more anonym than this site
- vmception 6y agoimagine not having sockpuppet accounts on HN [or reddit] imagine posting under your real name and having all that in your bio imagine thinking hackernews is different than a subreddit
- haunter 6y agoimagine this is 4chan
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- mhh__ 6y agoIs there evidence that this is really the case (the "going after" rather than the throwaways)? e.g. I think Stallman is driving free software into the ground regardless of how right he is about it's value, but I'm not going to chase anyone up - beyond thinking they're stupid
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- gjulianm 6y agoGiven how much the term "cancel culture" is being thrown around, I think that if someone got fired because of something they posted in HN (specially if it's a normal and reasoned opinion like almost all of the ones I'm seen in this thread) we would have seen it go round the presses five times over. I think a lot of it is echo: someone creates an anonymous account to say something because they think they're at risk, people see it and think that they're at risk too and repeat that and in the end you have a lot of people worrying about something that practically does not happen.