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Comment by kyle_martin1 | Hacker News Reader

Last time I wrote an intelligent argument... I was voted into oblivion because HN is a liberal, white male group think echo chamber. Silent downvoting is not exactly conducive to productive conversation with different opinions.

So I’d rather not waste my time...

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You've been using HN primarily for political battle. We ban accounts that do that. I had to go back as far as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24231151 to find a comment that was using HN as intended: for curious conversation.

I'm not going to ban you right now because that wasn't that long ago—but please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on.

As for "HN is a liberal" [etc] - the other side makes the same dramatic claims about how your side dominates the site. It's pure sample bias, driven by the fact that we all vastly overweight the data points that we dislike. I've written about this at length: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... - and I could give you a list of hundreds of comments making exactly the opposite complaint about HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662497, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25434397, etc. ad nauseum.

Feel free to ban me if you’d like to make this place less “inclusive” bro.

HN certainly has a sampling bias leaning towards the content of white, single, liberal SF bros. Because that’s HN’s user base.

"A riot is the language of the unheard" ~ Martin Luther King Jr

In this one instance, I hope he was wrong.

All the people who voted for Trump and who think the vote was rigged feel unheard.

Dr. King was quite perceptive.

We've banned this account for political flamewar. That's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it regardless of which politics they're battling for. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. This is a site for thoughtful, curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest—not bashing enemies.

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