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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. It isn't what this site is for, it's tedious, and it destroys the intellectual curiosity that it is for. For that reason, we ban accounts that do it.

We've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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If you check my posts from the last 24 hours, they have all been downvoted and probably flagged after these posts, despite being completely unrelated to this discussion and previously upvoted.

You have a serious dogpiling and retaliatory downvoting/flagging problem on HN, and the sooner you realize it, the better. There is a definite right-libertarian bias on HN, whether you want to acknowledge that or not. Everything not toeing that line is attacked and downvoted.

Respectfully, I will post as I see fit. Website fake karma points are meaningless.

Stop deflecting from the problems with your posts using a persecution claim, which is orthogonal to the objection by dang. Puffing up your chest with self-righteousness about the "right-libertarian" bias of the news guidelines doesn't fix your bad commenting.

This breaks the site guidelines too. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here?

The other side thinks that HN's bias is liberal-SJW-Marxist etc. People notice most, and remember most, what they dislike. Some random examples—there are zillions like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21368961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20202305

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15388778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16397133

Look closely and you'll find that ideological flamebait gets downvoted, flagged, and moderated on all sides here. The issue is the flames, not what color they burn.

HN has a strong US bias, which makes it tend right-wing compared to the rest of the developed world. Additionally, it also has a strong SV bias, which makes it tend libertarian.

I'm not just making this up, you know :-)

Your picture of HN's ideological bias is an afterimage of things you notice and dislike. Those burn more into the retina. If you had opposite ideological tastes, you'd have the opposite afterimage, as many readers do. Here's one from this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461976. Don't like these examples? Here are others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664482

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192430

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325122

FWIW, HN's community is 50% in the US and 10% in SV. I don't agree that it has a strong SV bias. SV topics are common, but how commenters feel about SV—or what they imagine SV to be—is deeply divided and somewhat on the negative side. That's a natural consequence of the topics being divisive and so little of the community being based here.

No, it's a "burned afterimage", it's a clear observation based on reading HN for many years (and later signing up to comment). I don't base it on specific cases, it's an overall trend.

Cherry picked examples aren't enough to change the fact that the dogpiling is real.

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