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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

But people post these links and one-sided, biased, hysterical links hourly and I can't share my thoughts on it? It's just an echo chamber in here? How does the article above relate to anything hackernews purportedly informs on? Honest question, not meant to enflame.

it seems super relevant that the billionaires of Silicon Valley are destroying the things that made America a scientific and engineering powerhouse.

a more useful question is why they posts keep getting flagged off the site.

Your first sentence is posted as if you're stating a proven fact, but it is a personal/shared opinion based on your digestion of one-sided perspectives on the situation.

you arent answering the question: why are these links allowed, which are blatentky political, but any political comments that dont toe the line are removed? that is literally an echo chamber…

The rules are the same for any HN user: you're welcome to make your substantive points thoughtfully, in keeping with the site guidelines. You're not welcome to post flamebait, regardless of what side you're on or how wrong other people are or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, you'll see what I mean. Note this, for example:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

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Everyone with strong feelings on this feels like the mods are secretly against their side and in favor of the other side.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The other side feels the same way that you do, just with the partisan bit flipped. For example, around the same time you posted your comment, someone else posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142843.

this is false in practice and you know it. flagging powers lie almost entirely in the hands of leftist users. the reality of this website is anything that is right-leaning is immediately flagged and beaten down and removed by you. meanwhile, links like this pop up constantly without receiving the same treatment. you known that this website is effectively a leftist filter bubble and you do nothing to address it because paulg is a leftist who is detached from reality.

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