why cant we? are you self-censoring because there's some policy forbidding us to talk about something clandestine here?
i dont have access to the joke, or inside club, or inner sanctum, and maybe theres other people like me that want to know more and if the mystery is self-imposed then i might respectfully push back that we cant talk about it
It's a meta discussion, but comments who go against popular opinion amongst HN commenters get increasingly down voted, flagged, [dead]. And it's rarely any extreme or rule-breaking comments. I wrote "against popular opinion", but that might not even be it. It could be that there's a minority of very active users who see it as their job to prune this message board of undesirable opinions.
Probably a bunch of them have opened my submission history in a new tab by now to mass downvote or look for evidence that I'm not a human, but in fact a bot, a paid shill, an AI, a Russian citizen, etc.
> Probably a bunch of them have opened my submission history in a new tab by now to mass downvote
Two things work against that. First, it requires a sufficiently high karma to downvote something. Not that threshold is that high, but it takes more than a casual person's activity to get quickly.
Secondly, you can't downvote something older than 24 hours. So nothing you said yesterday would be down-voteable.
You can also vouch for something that has been marked dead if you believe that something written contributes. If one believes that it is a minority of highly active users that prune undesirable opinions, then vouching for those would make those comments viewable again.
In this case, the popular opinion that would get them down voted is "The conspiracy theory that the world is secretly run by evil Jewish people is both false and racist."
Comments that vague-post about "I would say something but people would down vote it" should be expected to be down voted. Either it is too vague to add anything useful, or it expresses the same belief that they believe will be objectionable.
Worrying about your internet score is a sucker's game. Post what you believe, or don't bother.
why cant we? are you self-censoring because there's some policy forbidding us to talk about something clandestine here?
i dont have access to the joke, or inside club, or inner sanctum, and maybe theres other people like me that want to know more and if the mystery is self-imposed then i might respectfully push back that we cant talk about it
Looking at their comment history - they're just a garden-variety conspiracy theorist who think Jews control the world.
Some selected comments:
* sarcastic use of "gentiles are evil": https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43139725
* "dig deeper" with a Jewish-founded company: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39043221
* repeated sarcastic reference to "chosen people" : https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=42723812 , https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43412398
It's a meta discussion, but comments who go against popular opinion amongst HN commenters get increasingly down voted, flagged, [dead]. And it's rarely any extreme or rule-breaking comments. I wrote "against popular opinion", but that might not even be it. It could be that there's a minority of very active users who see it as their job to prune this message board of undesirable opinions.
Probably a bunch of them have opened my submission history in a new tab by now to mass downvote or look for evidence that I'm not a human, but in fact a bot, a paid shill, an AI, a Russian citizen, etc.
> Probably a bunch of them have opened my submission history in a new tab by now to mass downvote
Two things work against that. First, it requires a sufficiently high karma to downvote something. Not that threshold is that high, but it takes more than a casual person's activity to get quickly.
Secondly, you can't downvote something older than 24 hours. So nothing you said yesterday would be down-voteable.
You can also vouch for something that has been marked dead if you believe that something written contributes. If one believes that it is a minority of highly active users that prune undesirable opinions, then vouching for those would make those comments viewable again.
That said, make sure that vouching for things isn't based on a desire to be contrary. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298512
In this case, the popular opinion that would get them down voted is "The conspiracy theory that the world is secretly run by evil Jewish people is both false and racist."
Comments that vague-post about "I would say something but people would down vote it" should be expected to be down voted. Either it is too vague to add anything useful, or it expresses the same belief that they believe will be objectionable.
Worrying about your internet score is a sucker's game. Post what you believe, or don't bother.
Even this comment of mine has already been downvoted and flagged. Makes one wonder, doesn't it?