Who are the 'real ones™' on HN with the vision to see something that is most often inappropriate or hard to communicate here due to downvoting or lame rules? Take the opportunity to let us know here.
So you can post whatever you like but you can't demand that the moderators allow it to stay nor can you expect that everyone should upvote you. Your freedoms can't usurp the freedoms of others.
i used to think that the fact that both ideas were in currency indicated that it was probably unbiased. I now think that it probably means that the "right-wing"/"progressive" indicators are too simplistic a way to describe the actual underlying biases.
(This isn't related to my personal political opinions, I'm just using it as an example.)
They are good examples of the GP's comment about the idea of a position on a line between left and right wing orthodoxy being the wrong way to describe how HN coalesces around ideas though...
Where? Not doubting you, but I've never heard anyone describe it that way.
This one is hilarious:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
Commenters and voters are the same thing and if we were all hard-left, any different viewpoint would be downvoted into oblivion, no matter what the moderators could think.
My guess is that the people around here is a motley crew. Average would be leaning left, but much less than Reddit, to compare with something else.
Obviously the values held by "Conservative" political parties are not simply about being "conservative" - but it's not particularly surprising that people who like the idea of changing things aren't a big fan of a political movement which is based on doing things the way we always have.