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It may not even be official corporate manipulation. HN is frequented by a lot of industry insiders, and if they see something that doesn't resonate with what th
by shadowgovt 3y ago
It may not even be official corporate manipulation. HN is frequented by a lot of industry insiders, and if they see something that doesn't resonate with what they know to be true they'll downvote.
- shiroiuma 3y agoExactly: there's a ton of people here who work at the big ad-tech companies, so of course they're going to downvote anything that promotes ad-blocking since that harms their own paycheck in a way. Imagine a discussion forum for medical topics (science, research, etc.) where 1/3 the users work for companies that sell homeopathic "remedies", and how that would influence moderation there.