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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by throw02022024 on Friday February 02, 2024 @08:39PM (#39236818)
People like you is why this is not, and never will be, a serious forum. It's the mid-quality one that you grow out from because for anyone with some common sense, its exhausting.

Flags, karma and upvotes are fundamentally flawed and only allow the quality to reach a local maximum. For those inside the echo chamber, it's seemingly great. For those outside, it's useless. And we never hear from the dissenting voices because they are flagged/downvoted to oblivion.

Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by defrost on Friday February 02, 2024 @08:53PM (#39236887)
It's a serious forum for a range of topics with many people contributing serious comments.

You're correct that this is not a serious COVID forum, nor a particularly serious biochem forum and that's OK.

Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by tptacek on Friday February 02, 2024 @08:56PM (#39236909)
Surely there is some other site where you can hear these dissenting voices loud and clear.