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Re:Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries? by toyg on Sunday March 11, 2018 @10:46AM (#16563178)
You just haven’t noticed this phenomenon on HN yet.

It’s a fact of life: a downvote button will eventually be used as a “disagree” button rather than some idealistic concept of what moderation should be. Even the most reasonable person has a trigger subject, be it gun laws, abortion, or vi vs emacs.

If you think HN is somewhat immune, you’re in for a rude awakening at some point.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries? by phkahler on Sunday March 11, 2018 @11:43AM (#16563380)
HN in general also has a couple things that are trigger subjects. Areas there is little hope of making even a reasoned argument. I still like to burn a little karma sometimes ;-)
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Re:Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries? by paulddraper on Sunday March 11, 2018 @01:40PM (#16563909)
HTTPS-everywhere, Net Neutrality, employee rights.

And of course, Rust.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries? by mattmanser on Monday March 12, 2018 @12:20PM (#16569175)
It's more anything to do with women. That's HN's third rail.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries? by sebazzz on Monday March 12, 2018 @02:18AM (#16566492)
The difference is that in HN you need to earn your downvote rights (which I have not yet). That should put up a bar for initial down voting, though I agree with you. Some posts of mine have been downvotes, but not for an obvious reason. This means I am more careful posting the next time.
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