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I think there's quite a few anti-woke/anti-SJW and anti-vaxxers on HN. Look at all the submissions of articles that suggest slight problems with COVID vaccines.
by bediger4000 4y ago
I think there's quite a few anti-woke/anti-SJW and anti-vaxxers on HN. Look at all the submissions of articles that suggest slight problems with COVID vaccines.
- PaulHoule 4y agoThe anti-woke articles sometimes get a lot of upvotes on the /new page but they don't seem to last when they get the front page, I imagine they get flagged. I don't know if the upvotes are because some legitimate users get hooked or if it an example of dogpiling which they think is OK because they think their enemies dogpile all the time. Anti-vax articles were a lot more common (at the point where I'd call them "an assault") a year ago but I think people are a lot less interested in COVID-19 and its discontents than they were back then. They rarely make it to the top. I'm sure there is some filtering mechanism other than flagging, look at how the /new page was flooded by articles about the Twitterpocalypse but nothing about it makes the front page; these may be suppressed by some heuristics or active moderation, I find it hard to believe they are getting flagged quickly enough to explain their absence.