pwr33 | 5 years ago | on: The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)
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pwr33 | 5 years ago | on: The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)
"It’s pretty clear now that the broken windows theory applies to community sites as well. The theory is that minor forms of bad behavior encourage worse ones: that a neighborhood with lots of graffiti and broken windows becomes one where robberies occur. I was living in New York when Giuliani introduced the reforms that made the broken windows theory famous, and the transformation was miraculous. And I was a Reddit user when the opposite happened there, and the transformation was equally dramatic."
Paul Graham is such a tool.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099192
Somebody should delete this dumpster fire of a website, perhaps a real "hacker" might take the initiative some day!
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If you express some completely heinous ideas in polite, mostly grammatical writing then normally you will not be banned. This is based on my experience of over a decade of various accounts and occasional banning on "Hacker" News.