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Re:Show HN: Words for Chrome – Smarter, safer web comments by underrated on Monday July 28, 2014 @10:22AM (#8096835)
A well-organized hate group can use downvotes to silence reasonable discourse and trumpet their ideology, so it looks like the popular opinion when it's nothing of the sort.

You see this happen on Reddit. A hate group called SRS does it. They've even been leaking onto Hacker News recently, with some of the same lines they regularly use.

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Re:Show HN: Words for Chrome – Smarter, safer web comments by notduncansmith on Monday July 28, 2014 @08:58PM (#8100160)
Wow, that's really disheartening to hear. I've personally never seen that around here (thankfully), but now that I'm over my minor obsession with Dogecoin I don't spend much time on Reddit.
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