That a profile where half the comments are rude gets downvoted? If I want to get called an asshole and read rude, barely intelligible comments I'll go to 4chan. You can disagree and present well-reasoned arguments without devolving to "LOL WAT? U IDIOTS"
> We need to remove downvoting temporarily for next 6 months.
"Need" is an overstatement if I've ever heard one, wow. Sort of an arbitrary timeline, too.
> Cancel culture.
Equating downvoting and community moderation with "cancel culture" is pretty far off base.
> Dissent and attack on free speech.
You have absolutely no right to free speech on HN, nor should you, nor did you ever, nor is that what free speech actually means.
The number of people who equate "the government shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech" with "I can be an asshole in a private forum and you're not allowed to call me an asshole" is astounding, and that is the real problem here.
> Smearing of truth.
By downvoting rude comments?
> People are afraid to speak up.
They're demonstrably not.
> Chilling effect.
Word salad.
> @dang - this is urgently needed.
It's not.
> It’s raising alarm bells like no other to me.
By most news accounts the US is careening toward a totalitarian apocalypse, China is literally sending train loads of Uighur muslims to re-education camps, and we're in the middle (or start, in the US) of a global pandemic, but HN's community moderation standards and practices are what's got your spidey sense tingling?
> This is scary.
That a profile where half the comments are rude gets downvoted? If I want to get called an asshole and read rude, barely intelligible comments I'll go to 4chan. You can disagree and present well-reasoned arguments without devolving to "LOL WAT? U IDIOTS"
> We need to remove downvoting temporarily for next 6 months.
"Need" is an overstatement if I've ever heard one, wow. Sort of an arbitrary timeline, too.
> Cancel culture.
Equating downvoting and community moderation with "cancel culture" is pretty far off base.
> Dissent and attack on free speech.
You have absolutely no right to free speech on HN, nor should you, nor did you ever, nor is that what free speech actually means.
The number of people who equate "the government shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech" with "I can be an asshole in a private forum and you're not allowed to call me an asshole" is astounding, and that is the real problem here.
> Smearing of truth.
By downvoting rude comments?
> People are afraid to speak up.
They're demonstrably not.
> Chilling effect.
Word salad.
> @dang - this is urgently needed.
It's not.
> It’s raising alarm bells like no other to me.
By most news accounts the US is careening toward a totalitarian apocalypse, China is literally sending train loads of Uighur muslims to re-education camps, and we're in the middle (or start, in the US) of a global pandemic, but HN's community moderation standards and practices are what's got your spidey sense tingling?