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Re:Pardon Snowden by tomc1985 on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @12:50PM (#12498858)
What about a negative opinions? OSTRACIZED! Didn't like someone's show HN? OSTRACIZED! Didn't make your post happy enough? OSTRACIZED! Cuss a bit? OSTRACIZED! Offend the army of apple/react/nodejs/cloud/social fanatics? OSTRACIZED!

Not that it matters, ostracization means losing a few HN epeen points, so meh :)

(In the interest of keeping topicality, one could argue the above are examples of chilling effects in a community)

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Re:Pardon Snowden by MichaelMoser123 on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:37AM (#12503703)
>Not that it matters, ostracization means losing a few HN epeen points, so meh :)

people who care to take part and comment here might be more sensitive to social approval than the median - the quest for approval might ba a motive to participate. Therefore the loss of a few points might be more of a loss for them. In the long run that is not so good for the diversity of opinions, but so it goes...

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Re:Pardon Snowden by BFatts on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:50PM (#12499482)
You forgot the Android fanatics.
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