The internet is overwhelmingly filled with echo chambers. And there was, earlier, a special care taken for HN to avoid this fate and create a site where minorit

The internet is overwhelmingly filled with echo chambers. And there was, earlier, a special care taken for HN to avoid this fate and create a site where minority views can be debated. PG wrote a lot about the need to allow and protect non-standard opinions even if we sometimes find them uncomfortable. This view influenced choices at the earlier HN. Such content does not have to rise to the top of the page -- posts bubble down quickly in the absence of upvotes. But if, when it does (because enough people were interested in reading and commenting on it), it gets killed by flagging instead of a debate on merits we nudge HN in the direction of becoming yet another echo chamber. And a path toward becoming another echo chamber on the internet leads to a quicker irrelevance than most contributors realize. My 2c.