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Homogeneity is comfortable huh? Sounds like Silicon Valley thinking these days.

Yeah that ascii art with three swastikas really added to the discourse. That and the second comment “your mom is Facebook” made me think the Algonquin round table had come back to life.

You have to browse with Score -1 visible to see things like those.

As I understand it, HN (by default) also hides comments that have been moderated away.

FWIW, showdead on HN does not surface a whole lot other than SPAM. Most of the difference here appears to be a defacto level of professionalism, which seems to be mostly enforced by politely telling people to not do silly things. For all the criticisms you could have about Hacker News and SV culture in general, I will give it one thing: It is definitely one of the most civil and best moderated communities on the internet that I'm aware of right now. That's actually more sad than anything, but it is what it is.

Moderation asymmetries also leads to a chilling effect for controversial/challenging viewpoints.

That swastika person has been pulling that crap for a while: https://m.slashdot.org/profile/5542728/achievements

A community that doesn’t quickly ban such awful minority opinions will end up scaring the majority away.

Seems to be deleted now.

Person’s profile still there.

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