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"Don't talk about downvotes" but I'm sorry, the obvious suppression of inconvenient opinion on this thread is HILARIOUS. The HN community is all for free-think
by chernevik 4y ago
"Don't talk about downvotes" but I'm sorry, the obvious suppression of inconvenient opinion on this thread is HILARIOUS.
The HN community is all for free-thinking except when its own conventions are contradicted. And those conventions are quite self-interested.
I know this sort of meta-discourse is off-limits, but the effect is real and does deserve notice.
- p_j_w 4y agoThere was an article this morning about Silicon Valley VCs throwing a temper tantrum over the whole SVB debacle that was flagged, locked, and hidden with incredible speed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35138024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35138024). I'm sure the fact that it ran counter to YC's interests had nothing at all to do with it.
- chernevik 4y agoThere has always been a lot of groupthink in the downvoting and flagging here and they don't want to do anything about it. Oh well.