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> they are clearly exactly what the community rejects aka. "HN herd mentality." It feels me with sadness when I see the same trend over and over. People who ha
by th4dv 9y ago
> they are clearly exactly what the community rejects
aka. "HN herd mentality." It feels me with sadness when I see the same trend over and over. People who have different opinions on certain political/social matters are being silenced by this whole "community rejects" bullshit.
- Chris2048 9y agoOk, forget "community" then. Point is, there is no agreed "The opinion of HN" in dead comments. dead comments are not representative in general of HN since the downvotes/flags outnumber the upvotes/vouches.
- mr_spothawk 9y agoThat presumes all members vote & have down vote privilege: which is not true in either case.
- Chris2048 9y agodepends on what you consider to be a member. If there wasn't a karma cap, it'd be easy to sock-puppet-fake the votes.
- th4dv 9y agoThis is an excellent point. Sadly, people who share less popular opinions will (probably) never get to the point when they can start up/down voting. So the only way to get these "superpowers" is to join the HN circle jerk.
- Chris2048 9y agoThat's only True if you constantly make unpopular opinions, such that they outweigh your regular ones. There are all sorts of neutral comments that can be made, a point a piece..
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