A leftist can be as insulting, asinine, or engage in ad-hominem on HN without problem, he'll get voted up for agreeing with the hive mind.
But a libertarian who shows up and makes a non-ad hominem comment, or even just links to a scientific paper that disagrees with the leftist ideology, and you get hellbanned.
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Making a point that disagrees = hellbann
Date: 2013-10-15 05:01 pm (UTC)A leftist can be as insulting, asinine, or engage in ad-hominem on HN without problem, he'll get voted up for agreeing with the hive mind.
But a libertarian who shows up and makes a non-ad hominem comment, or even just links to a scientific paper that disagrees with the leftist ideology, and you get hellbanned.
HN will not tolerate critical thought.