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Funny it is posted on HN where your user score, which is called karma here for some reason, decides if you can or can't do stuff to engage with entire community
by npodbielski 1y ago
Funny it is posted on HN where your user score, which is called karma here for some reason, decides if you can or can't do stuff to engage with entire community fully. So either you are conformist or you will be downvoted and basically invisible.
- diggan 1y agoMeh, as long as you're contributing more than you upset people, it seems to balance itself out. I've made some egregious comments in the past (judging by the downvotes at least), yet you can still see this comment and probably my future ones too. And even though some comments I've made been downvoted, they've stilled spawned interesting conversations, so I count that as a win regardless.
- npodbielski 1y agoSo conformists that trolls from time to time? :)
- immibis 1y agoHN has not just self-reinforcing consensus through karma, but also imposed false consensus through moderation decisions. I've just been informed that flagging and voting from my account have been disabled (they appear to work, but don't actually do anything) because I didn't flag all political sides in equal numbers. It seems my account has been identified as "a side", therefore is subject to equality requirements. Meanwhile, obviously mass-flaggings by "the other side" accounts permeate the site every day.
- sadeshmukh 1y agoInformed by who?
- immibis 1y agoBy dang, the moderator, via email.
- npodbielski 1y agoYou have been informed that they shadow banned you? For side? In what politics?