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Do not talk against the lefties or any vocal group you will be ok. Because there is no 'disagree' people down vote.

jlgreco 13y ago
If people upvote for agree, then...
CamperBob2 13y ago
Also, don't criticize Go (the language). It seems to be one of several sacred cows around here. I think that's what happened to my original CamperBob account. Oddly, it also seems that anyone who uses any of several terms for, well, "the sin of Onan," is likely to be hellbanned for it. Someone could get at least one thesis in linguistics out of reverse engineering all of the undocumented HN pitfalls that lead to hellbanning of otherwise-legitimate users.
newnewnew 13y ago
Hacker News is leftist, but they are not too quick with the down votes on dissidents. This is not reddit, yet. I prefer to keep all politics off of HN, because otherwise this will become another site where leftists pat other leftists on the back and no real discussion is permitted.
- kropotkin 13y ago
  Are you guys joking? I've been reading Hacker News on and off for years and the majority of the people here are squarely center-right. I can count on one hand the number of regular commenters that I'd consider to be on the Left. Hacker News is for the most part a forum for pro-Capitalists interested in technology.
  - newnewnew 13y ago
    The construction of any political spectrum depends upon the time period over which you define it. The political poles of the last six months are a lot closer than the political poles generated from data collected over the last six decades. Me, I've been reading a lot of Mencius Moldbug lately, so my political ideas are going to be fairly abnormal. Discussing politics with me is going to be like discussing colors of a painting with a gentleman on DMT.
- superflit 13y ago
  The down votes are faster and hides the posts. So people use it as censor. As all lefties like censorship.. Want votes? Talk how bad USA is but forget what European countries do that are worse. (Ask the African continent )
  - DanBC 13y ago
    You write posts like this, but complain that it is "lefties" that are censoring you? I really hate the attitude of "the downvotes prove me right". :-/
    - superflit 13y ago
      Haters gonna hate... :) ok this was a joke ;)
bjourne 13y ago
As a "lefty" and someone with enough karma to downvote comments. I will only downvote for three reasons: 1. Comments beginning with "I will probably be modded to oblivion for this, but ... " Where " ... " Is usually some schizo, racist shit. 2. Show HN-comments like "Why did you spend hundreds of hours building this useless hack when you could have contributed something useful to humanity instead?" 3. Terrible "in soviet russia" jokes and other slashdot-originated garbage. As of yet, I've never downvoted someone for any other reason, but I'm tempted to start downvoting all those "hn mods are in a big communist conspiracy and are censoring the truth!" comments because proving paranoid people right seems like fun.

If people upvote for agree, then...

Also, don't criticize Go (the language). It seems to be one of several sacred cows around here. I think that's what happened to my original CamperBob account. Oddly, it also seems that anyone who uses any of several terms for, well, "the sin of Onan," is likely to be hellbanned for it. Someone could get at least one thesis in linguistics out of reverse engineering all of the undocumented HN pitfalls that lead to hellbanning of otherwise-legitimate users.

newnewnew 13y ago

Hacker News is leftist, but they are not too quick with the down votes on dissidents. This is not reddit, yet. I prefer to keep all politics off of HN, because otherwise this will become another site where leftists pat other leftists on the back and no real discussion is permitted.

kropotkin 13y ago
Are you guys joking? I've been reading Hacker News on and off for years and the majority of the people here are squarely center-right. I can count on one hand the number of regular commenters that I'd consider to be on the Left. Hacker News is for the most part a forum for pro-Capitalists interested in technology.
- newnewnew 13y ago
  The construction of any political spectrum depends upon the time period over which you define it. The political poles of the last six months are a lot closer than the political poles generated from data collected over the last six decades. Me, I've been reading a lot of Mencius Moldbug lately, so my political ideas are going to be fairly abnormal. Discussing politics with me is going to be like discussing colors of a painting with a gentleman on DMT.
superflit 13y ago
The down votes are faster and hides the posts. So people use it as censor. As all lefties like censorship.. Want votes? Talk how bad USA is but forget what European countries do that are worse. (Ask the African continent )
- DanBC 13y ago
  You write posts like this, but complain that it is "lefties" that are censoring you? I really hate the attitude of "the downvotes prove me right". :-/
  - superflit 13y ago
    Haters gonna hate... :) ok this was a joke ;)

bjourne 13y ago

As a "lefty" and someone with enough karma to downvote comments. I will only downvote for three reasons: 1. Comments beginning with "I will probably be modded to oblivion for this, but ... " Where " ... " Is usually some schizo, racist shit. 2. Show HN-comments like "Why did you spend hundreds of hours building this useless hack when you could have contributed something useful to humanity instead?" 3. Terrible "in soviet russia" jokes and other slashdot-originated garbage. As of yet, I've never downvoted someone for any other reason, but I'm tempted to start downvoting all those "hn mods are in a big communist conspiracy and are censoring the truth!" comments because proving paranoid people right seems like fun.