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So the comments that were disagreed with enough to be downvoted to obscurity or sometimes even moderated out of sight entirely represent the entire community?
by Macha 5y ago
So the comments that were disagreed with enough to be downvoted to obscurity or sometimes even moderated out of sight entirely represent the entire community?
This happens a lot with comments like "HN is toxic" or in a more mainstream sense "gamers are toxic", and it just makes me sad.
- robocat 5y agoPlease don’t misrepresent what she said. She said “At the time, I was mostly referring to the open sewers that are certain web forums on certain days of the week and certain hours of those days. For some reason, when the regular people are out doing whatever they do, the haters have nothing better to do than run unchecked on the web. With no sensible people there to set them straight, they feed off each other, and pretty soon you have some straight-up nuclear waste in those forums.” I think that is saying HN is usually a good forum, but at some limited times it is not.