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Can'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
by asveikau 5mo ago
Can'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 5mo agoIt’s not. It’s unusually inhospitable to it. It’s also explicitly a guidelines violation.
- asveikau 5mo 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 5mo 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 5mo 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 5mo 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.