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Comment by cryptoquick | Hacker News Reader

Your pushback against the HN downvoter cowards, especially when you've questioned the status quo and planted a seed of dissent against the grain, is quite appreciated by this particular HN user.

Honestly, I find the dialogue here toxic and coarse, and I'm sure I'm a part of that, too. Ideally I'd just delete my account, and never come back... But HN won't allow me to delete my account, so, in spite, I'll keep coming back.

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Years ago it wasn't like this, and I recall reading mostly hardcore tech nerdery on here.

Now... I don't even know. HN and Reddit are pretty well useless, and the only thing that keeps me around Reddit are automotive and industrial/machining subs. Seems strange that it was only 8 years ago.

Member when HN was overwhelmingly pro meritocracy? I member.

I really miss reading King Terry's diatribes in showdead. You'd probably be outright banned for that on here now.

I don't think people downvoted as much back then either.

The same thing happened to Russian IT hub, Habr.com. Today it's nothing but a propaganda outlet aimed at those who spin the cogs of this technocratic machine (and especially at the suggestible teens who will spin them in the future). The same thing over and over again all over the internet and society as a whole. No choice, no dissent, no free will. We know better. You get muted and ridiculed. Silently. Efficiently. Yes you can but you can't.

People today seem to be scared to death to think different (not as in apple).

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