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It was a joke, a parody of how often HN itself acts as a pleb filter, specifically about telling people to "go back to Reddit", and it got flagged... two days a
by krapp 3y ago
It was a joke, a parody of how often HN itself acts as a pleb filter, specifically about telling people to "go back to Reddit", and it got flagged... two days ago. Mea culpa for trying to be humorous in the no-humor zone.
The commentariat already punished me. The system worked as intended, I paid a misdemeanor fine of karma for a misdemeanor offense, and I made a number of better comments since, and we should all have moved on by now. This wasn't something you needed to step in on.
- bezier-curve 3y agoKarma in general is a poor metric of quality, and the way that downvotes are being gated from users not catering to popular opinion pushes out these voices that may not necessarily be fringe, but just unpopular at the time. This is a feedback loop, and only creates environments where people do not feel comfortable speaking out.
- dang 3y agoOk, I'll take your word for it and I apologize for overreacting!