I won't be treated like a moron by a moron.
And all anyone really needs to know, in order to suspect dishonesty and censorship from you, is an awareness of your shadowbanning tactics.
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It's ok though. There are other culturally influential websites where people/groups can market their ideas, cults, viewpoints, albums, etc. And some of them don't shadowban. Some of them do something a little different instead.
It all works out. Have a nice day!
That's just way inappropriate. Probably the only reason your comment isn't [dead] is you're in a discussion about moderation.
I wouldn't attack Dan so personally. Instead, think of the community here. There is a hint of who they are in the following quip. Actually it explains things well enough that it tends to get downvoted whenever I post it. Perhaps because it hits a little too close to home:
HN is open minded about intellectual inquiry as long as that inquiry doesn't challenge anything an average Californian already believes
I don't remember exactly where I found that. But just think about it. There are so many people on HN from the Bay Area. The submissions, discourse, and moderation all reflect that "bias". What you're observing is simply an emergent behavior.
If you have a cosmopolitan group of "users", but the most active ones are largely from the Bay Area, then the point about Bay Area groupthink still stands.
This was a few years ago already though.