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I have not seen anything up-voted here that is non-tech opinion.

• Macha 4y ago
  As in posts or comments? Because there's plenty of disagreeable opinions in the comments who get upvoted at least some of the time. I'd disagree with characterising everyone who uses the site like that, but also don't agree with people who think the comment quality is flawless.
• halostatue 4y ago
  Often the brigade down-voting of things that certain people consider to be a non-tech opinion is itself based on a highly-biased approach to what is appropriate for technical discussions. These are often the same sorts of discussion used dismissing discussions of alternative naming of git primary branches and other technical terms that have more accurate and less degrading names, or are entirely dismissive of codes of conduct for code repos or conferences. I have quite often seen COVID-19 disinformation upvoted here, as well as many other conspiracy theories unique to a particular subset of the population. I have often debated whether I want to remain part of the HN community—it is often toxic. But I also don’t want to cede space to people whose worldview is inimical to my own, so I stay and argue against the worst parts of it.