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Please don't break the site guidelines like this. If you have evidence of abuse, you should email it to hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. In the meantime, please stick to this rule: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken." Groundless speculation about manipulation is basically the most common weed growing on internet forums, it nearly always turns out to be a function of cognitive bias (e.g. people see posts they don't like and conclude that their enemies have the run of the place), and it makes for tedious, low-quality discussion.

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There are many past explanations (some very in-depth) of why we moderate HN this way. Here are some:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398725

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 (<-- Mini-FAQ)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397695

What is an ideologue?

Somebody who is dogmatically following an ideology; think of an ideologue as somebody who is running an abstract program in place of their normal ability to think about information using the principles they have naturally acquired through their life experiences.

Having ideas that map 1:1 to those of an ideology does not intrinsically make you an ideologue. Forming those ideas, based on conformity to an ideology that you have subscribed to, does.

This matches 'red scare' quite nicely and might give you some food for further thought.

The definition of ideologue matches the red scare? Are you sure you meant to reply to that comment?

I meant to reply to that comment, yes.

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