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> sorry it seems discussion about solutions to racial issues isn't welcome here Oddly it seems like you are the person who doesn't want to have a discussion.
by ZephyrBlu 5y ago
> sorry it seems discussion about solutions to racial issues isn't welcome here
Oddly it seems like you are the person who doesn't want to have a discussion.
You stated "As an ML engineer I can tell you confidently here's how you fix these systems" and people critiqued your solution. Is that not being open to discussion?
- dheera 5y agoCritiques and debates are fine, but downvotes don't encourage discussion, they scream "shut up" and disincentivize speaking about the issue ever again, and downrank a viewpoint instead of leaving it up for fair discussion. Because presumably, if it works like many other systems, if you get downvoted enough, you probably get banned, so it means I should be scared to say what I said again. If people were interested in debating like mature adults without downvoting then I would have left it up and continued the discussion.
- IncRnd 5y agoOkay. Why did you make an engineering discussion into a discussion about race?
- User23 5y agoThe moderators here are exceedingly reasonable. Don’t worry about getting banned on account of downvotes unless you’re violating the guidelines. And the staff at hn@ycombinator.com is shockingly responsive for a site of this size. They really do want to encourage intellectual curiosity.