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Yes. I read the study when it was posted before, and I don't understand it well enough to know if it is flawed. I want to hear from some experts - we know you a

• maxwell 5y ago
  Nah, marked as a dupe. Conversation shut down again.
  • JPKab 5y ago
    Yeah for a site that used to pride itself on nuanced conversation they've decided this is something too dangerous to discuss. The obsession amongst educated elites when it comes to second order effects of speech is really disgusting.
    • dang 5y ago
      Be careful not to make up reasons in cases where you don't know what actually happened. It leads to a feedback loop. In this case - (a) we didn't flag the other article, users did; (b) dupes of a flagged submission are still dupes; (c) we haven't decided that this is "too dangerous to discuss", or anything like that. There has been a plethora of such submissions over the last couple of years. They can't all be on the front page and it's not so easy to tell which ones point to something interesting vs. which ones don't. Also, the threads tend to devolve into flamewars, and we want substantive, curious conversation here. In other words—the same moderation principles that determine everything else we do on HN. There's no special secret covid rule. As for "a site that used to pride itself" - that's not only an imaginary statement, it's a category error. Sites don't have feelings. If you mean the people who run this site, I can tell you how I feel about it: I'm proud of certain things that appear here from time to time, and ashamed of other things that appear here from time to time. It averages out into mild embarrassment, tempered by an understanding of how hard it is to do any better on the internet. That's all.