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Comment by gentleman11 | Hacker News Reader

I have never gotten more upvotes so quickly but the only comments are by people who felt comfortable because they disagree. That says something

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This will not last! The day of the judgement, those of us who voted for your comment will be disclosed, and we will be duly punished for our wrongthink.

It's rare that a comment floats on the line so perfectly - I don't even have a suspicion about whether you are mocking the parent for being dramatic/self-pitying, or if you are being sarcastic in a critique of those who are being accused of censorship.

So I succeeded in my purpose to mock everybody? But really, I think that we are not far from the "grand upvote disclosure" day where by some strange leak all upvotes in the internet will become public. Then people will start to be fired for having upvoted the wrong comment 20 years ago. This will be recursive, of course: if you ever upvoted a comment written by a wrong person, you become a wrong person as well. And so on. So, please be careful with the upvotes to controversial comments here.

Downvoted you just to be sure! :) (not really)

That's already the case on reddit to some extent, you can be banned for upvoting content.

From their announcement on the subject:

"""

Today, we’re making an update to address this gap: Users who consistently upvote policy-breaking content within quarantined communities will receive automated warnings, followed by further consequences like a temporary or permanent suspension. We hope this will encourage healthier behavior across these communities.

"""

Funny how they call their toxic manipulative behavior as healthy. Such nonsense.

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