I appreciate your response. I don't expect you'll see this reply, since it's so old, but just in case: > Let me ask you a question, though you don't have to a

I appreciate your response. I don't expect you'll see this reply, since it's so old, but just in case: > Let me ask you a question, though you don't have to answer it. Do you feel like HN is biased against the point of view you yourself favor? Generally, yes, of course. > Because, in my experience, that's what everyone who feels that HN is biased actually feels. This is so reliable a phenomenon that I can predict someone's political orientation just from what they say about HN. I don't believe I've seen a single exception. That's shocking, and I'm pretty sure it's true. I'm guessing this isn't what you mean by that, but I'd like to point out a way to interpret it: If HN is left-leaning, and left-leaning people do not think HN is biased, then only right-leaning people would think HN is biased, and one could predict political orientation based on whether a person thinks HN is biased. In other words, if left-leaning people think their position is neutral (e.g. because they're irreligious, and they think that religion is biased and that secularism is unbiased), and HN is left-leaning, then left-leaning people would think HN is unbiased, and right-leaning people would think it is biased. Now I'm guessing you meant that both left- and right-leaning people think HN is biased against their political orientation. But I challenge you (not that you haven't done this, but still) to look at submissions on polarizing issues (e.g. global warming, sexism, racism), look at the comments that are downvoted and flagged, and look at which viewpoints those comments espouse. Modulo comments that are flagged or downvoted for obvious guidelines violations, my claim is that the vast majority are ones that are right-leaning. I don't think confirmation bias is causing me to think this--I think it's a fair observation. And if that observation is correct, then I think it's fair to conclude that HN is biased to the left.