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Re:Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State (2014) by dang on Friday September 14, 2018 @03:53PM (#17990375)
We don't claim to be objective. That would require arhat levels of self-knowledge. But we do try.

People with the opposite ideology to yours perceive HN as having the opposite bias. I was keeping a list of these for a while. Here's a sample:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098840

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407769

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750306

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17248326

This phenomenon has been studied. It's called the Hostile Media Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22....

Re:Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State (2014) by pluto9 on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:16PM (#17990572)
> Fun fact

Who's being snarky now?

> I was keeping a list of these for a while.

Those are people complaining about other HN commenters. I'm talking about you specifically unevenly suppressing conservative posts. Just look at your comment history to see how many people complain about that, and how few complain in the other direction.

> We don't claim to be objective.

And yet you post that tiresome Hostile Media Effect link every time someone calls you out for it. Yes, we know it's a thing. No, that doesn't automatically mean that's what's going on here. No, it is not reasonable to think that everyone is wearing ideological blinders except you.

Ban me if you want. You're not moderating, you're taking sides.

Re:Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State (2014) by dang on Friday September 14, 2018 @10:58PM (#17992726)
It didn't occur to me that 'fun fact' would sound snarky. It really is a curious fact. But I'll edit that bit out above.

You didn't seem to notice that I posted moderation replies to two accounts in this thread: yours and one with the opposing view. Those were the two that obviously broke the guidelines. That's all we're really looking for when we do this; we're not much interested in the opinions.