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Comment by viraptor | Hacker News Reader

Look at older posts with showdead on - there's a lot of personal attacks, claims about vtuber identity, trans hate, etc. It's been a bit more chill recently, but the history is there. (apart from the recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406393 which has lots of terrible people again)

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To be fair a lot of them are newly created accounts that troll spam.

How exactly is that fair?

A fair assessment might be that instead of a large number of regular users leaving bad comments there is a small number, potentially even one, that spin up sock accounts to make a disproportionally larger number of bigoted comments.

That doesn't change the content in any way. Of course people will use one off accounts to be assholes.

Sure, my point is that it's not a majority of organic hatred but artificially inflated instead.

I think that's the point being made in the banner message / plea.

Here we are, still able to see that content.. and so can search engines and AI.

No one here at HN has done anything to remove the content that only exists to attack and demean, even though it looks like troll accounts.

We down vote it, flag it, hide it, but it's still there.

I don't know much about this particular situation, but I can empathize.

"with showdead on" -- that's the point, isn't it? Personal attacks against people involved with Asahi are swiftly downvoted and killed. I guess the project members would like them to be actually deleted, but that's not really how HN works.

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