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Re:Designing Social Systems Without Causing Depression and War by smallnamespace on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:01AM (#16178084)
That is somewhat negated by the fact that dissenting users from a post with a 'skewed' comment section can often go make their own post in response. This happens rather more frequently on Reddit than here since HN discourages duplicate posting on a topic.
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Re:Designing Social Systems Without Causing Depression and War by j_s on Friday January 19, 2018 @10:25AM (#16186879)
>HN discourages duplicate posting on a topic

I would grudgingly agree, but found it funny that the following example sat on the front page the same day as your comment, and the second post exceeded the original's points & comments!

It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16175646 (currently 146 points, 105 comments)

9 hours later: It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16179181 (currently 341 points, 158 comments)

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