I used to have an account there and participated in the discussion for years until I got banned a few years ago in a discussion with a blue Anime-fox avatar who

I used to have an account there and participated in the discussion for years until I got banned a few years ago in a discussion with a blue Anime-fox avatar who was on a mission to politicise the discourse. Judging from similar reports this seems to be relatively common on the site so I just gave up on it. The discourse can be good but the place does not allow anyone to deviate from the desired narrative. It is odd to see how lobste.rs grew of out discontent with the way HN was moderated but ended up falling into that trap itself. The way a site is moderated is a decisive factor for the couleur locale or 'culture' of the place. While I have my grumblings about HN moderation - or, more specifically, about the use of down-votes for expressing disagreement - this site is not as hostile to those who do not follow the narrative as lobste.rs is - or was, I have not been there for a long time so things could have changed.