Could you please stop using HN primarily for ideological battle? We ban such accounts, regardless of what they're for or against, and your account has been particularly bad for this lately. You're way on the wrong side of the line, so if you want to keep posting here, we need you to fix this.
Sure, I probably don't have a choice anyway. I'm not sure that I see the particular comment you are replying to as being very "ideological" though.
Also, can I have my downvoting, flagging, and vouching privileges back? I have a feeling that they have been disabled without any kind of explicit notification or explanatoin. Just like shadow-banning domains and accounts, that's something I don't appreciate about your site.
> regardless of what they're for or against
That may be your intention, but it doesn't seem to be what you are doing in practice. Take a look at the following left-wing accounts, all of which have quite a lot of "ideological" submissions/comments, and none of which are banned (and ideally, I don't think should be banned):
bediger4000
myshpa
cratermoon
PrimeMcFly
This last one calls most of Republican politicians "christofascists". [1] Again, I don't think they should be banned for that per se, but you seem to have banned a right-wing account for calling trans people "a blight on society" [2]. If my understanding of the situation is correct, that seems politically biased to me.
On the other hand, let's look at the political ideology of the accounts from your search query [3] (R is for right-wing, L for left-wing):
sfusato; R
salemh; R
hutzlibu; R
TeeMassive; R
dragonsh; R
door5; L
qd6pwu4; Not sure, apparently just pro-China
outis; R
I just took the first few ones in there as a representative sample, but I'm sure you understand why this may give an appearance of political bias.
Finally, based on your previous comments, I understand that you find it amusing that both left-wingers and right-wingers think moderation is biased against them. I'd like to note that this doesn't imply that HN's moderation is free of political bias.
It's like to the old relativist fallacy: just because different people have different norms and opinions doesn't mean that all norms and opinions are equally invalid. Some could be just plain wrong, and others could be right. You should look at the evidence.
dang|2 years ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
mutant_glofish|2 years ago
Also, can I have my downvoting, flagging, and vouching privileges back? I have a feeling that they have been disabled without any kind of explicit notification or explanatoin. Just like shadow-banning domains and accounts, that's something I don't appreciate about your site.
> regardless of what they're for or against
That may be your intention, but it doesn't seem to be what you are doing in practice. Take a look at the following left-wing accounts, all of which have quite a lot of "ideological" submissions/comments, and none of which are banned (and ideally, I don't think should be banned):
This last one calls most of Republican politicians "christofascists". [1] Again, I don't think they should be banned for that per se, but you seem to have banned a right-wing account for calling trans people "a blight on society" [2]. If my understanding of the situation is correct, that seems politically biased to me.On the other hand, let's look at the political ideology of the accounts from your search query [3] (R is for right-wing, L for left-wing):
I just took the first few ones in there as a representative sample, but I'm sure you understand why this may give an appearance of political bias.Finally, based on your previous comments, I understand that you find it amusing that both left-wingers and right-wingers think moderation is biased against them. I'd like to note that this doesn't imply that HN's moderation is free of political bias.
It's like to the old relativist fallacy: just because different people have different norms and opinions doesn't mean that all norms and opinions are equally invalid. Some could be just plain wrong, and others could be right. You should look at the evidence.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37349420
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148619
[3]: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...