throwaway665544

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by throwaway665544 3y ago
My original account was shadow-banned by HN years ago (probably by @dang) due to some overly heated political discourse bs. Hence my interest in debating @dang's straw-man response....and nowadays, using throwaway accounts is often the
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by throwaway665544 3y ago
It's perfectly reasonable for private communities to have their own sets of rules and regulations. I'm simply pointing out an example of the all-too-common situation pervading certain communities where clear mechanisms of ideologi
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by throwaway665544 3y ago
I hear you, but relying solely on the community's perception, particularly when it's predominantly of a certain mindset, doesn't guarantee objectivity. After all, recent years have seen an accelerating trend where leftist-con
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by throwaway665544 3y ago
Envision an airline withholding safety records, a car manufacturer keeping crash test results private, a restaurant refusing to provide health inspection logs, or a government refusing to disclose details of its budget allocation — all clai
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by throwaway665544 3y ago
HN is a leftist echo chamber, so “flagged by users” is still a relevant and interesting metric here (that I think would also prove my point).
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by throwaway665544 3y ago
The simple solution would be to display a log of all removed/flagged/shadowbanned posts and comments, like Wikipedia does.
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by throwaway665544 3y ago
If you have nothing to hide, why not make all story and comment removal history publicly visible, like Wikipedia edits.