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Nobody loves these kinds of pieces more than Yarvin. Look at how important he must be! My Yarvin-contempt bona fides are as strong as anyone's here (maybe exce
by tptacek 6mo ago
Nobody loves these kinds of pieces more than Yarvin. Look at how important he must be!
My Yarvin-contempt bona fides are as strong as anyone's here (maybe except for 'lisper) and I resent the implication this article makes about Hacker News and "race realism". It is in fact not common here. Use the search bar. I've been monitoring this (and jumping in when it pops up) for several years now --- this and DNSSEC are my two "beats", the two things I'm careful to pay attention to --- and it comes up rarely and mostly by the same fringey actors.
Race-realism claims are almost always quickly flagged off the site by the community. Almost every time I've reported something to Dan and Tom, I've looked dumb, because it was flagged dead 2 minutes after my email landed.
We're a deeply imperfect community (like every other community, in our own idiosyncratic ways), but compared to other communities this is not one of our flaws.
- cramsession 6mo ago[dead]
- asveikau 6mo agoCan't say I've made any attempt to quantify it or talk to mods, but I feel this site is more receptive to racist right wing garbage than most communities I read or comment in.
- tptacek 6mo agoIt’s not. It’s unusually inhospitable to it. It’s also explicitly a guidelines violation.
- asveikau 6mo agoOften they do what Republicans used to do, which is mask it, dress it up to be polite and plausibly deniable, or make it seem like they're just a mainstream right of center person. Other times it surfaces as the way people vote on comments. But I feel it strongly here. It's not everyone by any means, but there is a contingency for it here.
- tomhow 6mo agoI'm a moderator here and I urge you to email us any time you see any comments that fit this category (hn@ycombinator.com). This is something we take seriously and act on quickly when we see it. People don't always tell us because they don't know they should, but I'm telling you very clearly: you should.
- happytoexplain 6mo agoThat might be literally true, since it's relative to your browsing habits, but it's an eyebrow-raising assertion to me. Maybe I get exposed to an unusual amount of racist right-wing garbage on the rest of the internet, or maybe you have a much more loose rules than I do for what qualifies, but as far as I can tell, HN is unusually non-tribalistic (in comparison to the rest of the internet).
- asveikau 6mo ago> HN is unusually non-tribalistic I think there are a few tribes coexisting here. Like I alluded to earlier, no tribe represents everyone here. But tribalism definitely exists in pockets.
- TimorousBestie 6mo ago> I resent the implication this article makes about Hacker News and "race realism". It is in fact not common here. Use the search bar. Flagged and dead comments won’t show up in a search, but people can and do have conversations under them for days after the flagging. You were in one of these just this week. Your claims about the prevalence of non-dead, explicit “race realism” may be true (like the sibling comment, I disagree), but it doesn’t seem to tell the whole story either.
- tptacek 6mo agoIf you disagree, feel free to provide links. I can.
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