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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by crispyambulance on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:36PM (#20646035) 

    > prefer debates be governed by [cherry-picked data] instead of whose argument is the most "humane"
To be overly generous, that's a false dichotomy.

There's a time and place for humane arguments and, in the absence of complete "data" (whatever THAT means), that may be all you have. At the end of the day, we're all emotional creatures and this often justifiably dominates considerations of human affairs. Not everything can be boiled down to problems in first order logic.

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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by CompanionCuuube on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:57PM (#20646847)
> There's a time and place for humane arguments and, in the absence of complete "data" (whatever THAT means), that may be all you have.

I'm trying to be charitable here, but it's difficult not to conclude that you're setting up the data as never being sufficient e.g. "whatever THAT means" in order to support humane arguments over data based arguments.

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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by crumpets on Thursday August 08, 2019 @05:08PM (#20648800)
>"data" (whatever THAT means)

Holy shit. Observable evidence.

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