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> Your site is full of sexism and racism that you can't report to the main moderator because he approves of it. No idea what they mean. I read HN all the time

> Your site is full of sexism and racism that you can't report to the main moderator because he approves of it. No idea what they mean. I read HN all the time, and haven't seen anything remotely like sexism, racism, or white supremacy.

x3n0ph3n3 4y ago
I browse with showdead turned on and all of that stuff gets downvoted or reported into oblivion.
p1necone 4y ago
It depends on the topic, with posts that are mostly about technical stuff (which of course is most things that get posted on HN) there's generally no hint of any of that. But when anything gets posted that can be linked to race, or celebrates some minority, or talks about the climate I notice a disturbing amount of people crawl out of the woodwork and post some truly awful/ignorant things.
- roughly 4y ago
  Yeah, I guess reflecting on this, there are a lot of good conversations that happen here, and because of that, I forget how much terrible shit also gets posted here. A lot of it gets downvoted into oblivion, but the bell curve on quality’s got some fat tails.
  - p1necone 4y ago
    Yeah I'm kinda the same. I stick around because interesting/useful stuff gets posted here, and the discussion is mostly also interesting/useful. But some days I wonder if I really want to hang around in a space where comments about "race realism" and obviously willfully ignorant climate change denialism are tolerated. (like you said they usually get downvoted into oblivion, but not consistently enough for me to be comfortable that those people aren't still a fairly large minority of those engaging in discussion on this site).
fidgewidge 4y ago
You're using the standard definitions of those words. People like that use totally different definitions that are ideologically based, for example, expressing concern over discrimination against men = white supremacy to them.

x3n0ph3n3 4y ago

I browse with showdead turned on and all of that stuff gets downvoted or reported into oblivion.

p1necone 4y ago

It depends on the topic, with posts that are mostly about technical stuff (which of course is most things that get posted on HN) there's generally no hint of any of that. But when anything gets posted that can be linked to race, or celebrates some minority, or talks about the climate I notice a disturbing amount of people crawl out of the woodwork and post some truly awful/ignorant things.

roughly 4y ago
Yeah, I guess reflecting on this, there are a lot of good conversations that happen here, and because of that, I forget how much terrible shit also gets posted here. A lot of it gets downvoted into oblivion, but the bell curve on quality’s got some fat tails.
- p1necone 4y ago
  Yeah I'm kinda the same. I stick around because interesting/useful stuff gets posted here, and the discussion is mostly also interesting/useful. But some days I wonder if I really want to hang around in a space where comments about "race realism" and obviously willfully ignorant climate change denialism are tolerated. (like you said they usually get downvoted into oblivion, but not consistently enough for me to be comfortable that those people aren't still a fairly large minority of those engaging in discussion on this site).

fidgewidge 4y ago

You're using the standard definitions of those words. People like that use totally different definitions that are ideologically based, for example, expressing concern over discrimination against men = white supremacy to them.