Is this Hacker News? I mean, I understand why I saw the article on several other news aggregators yesterday, it's not really the kind of topic I expect to see here.
It also might provoke a discussion on how we might REALLY be able to tell what the poor bastard is "saying", instead of using his hand as a fucking keyboard wand.
From the guidelines
However I tend to agree with this comment - is this 'Hacker News'worthy?
I especially object to the downvote on this post - I think downvoting shouldnt be used unless the post is clearly offensive.
It think this is legitimate comment - HN needs to preserve Freedom of Speech and not become a self-serving myopic site where people are afraid to speak their mind for fear of losing karma brownie points.
Im hoping that down votes happen less when people speak their mind.. and that downvotes are on average reserved for clearly offensive content.
I think the issue needs some introspection, hence I risked being downvoted.
But I get what you're saying, and that's why we have moderators. Left to its own devices, a crowd is unable to self-moderate and keep something like HN from drifting into popularity cascades.
This is especially true when people are given information about what other people think (the score, the position on the home page, comments) before voting themselves.