Re:An Update on Hacker News
by gohjo on Monday November 10, 2014 @04:58PM
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I was responding to this part of dang's post:
If users could look at the actual record, their perennial sob story of perfectly reasonable behavior struck down by bullying censors would evaporate. So they make new accounts and post statements designed to be unanswerable.
I interpreted that as dang attributing essentially every complaint to malice, and simultaneously dismissing all other explanations.
Re:An Update on Hacker News
by tptacek on Monday November 10, 2014 @05:24PM
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A misleading summary, since you're the one who introduced the idea of "malice" and "fraud". Dan's claim admits to HN users who believe they've been hellbanned for criticizing YC companies. Yours doesn't.
If users could look at the actual record, their perennial sob story of perfectly reasonable behavior struck down by bullying censors would evaporate. So they make new accounts and post statements designed to be unanswerable.
I interpreted that as dang attributing essentially every complaint to malice, and simultaneously dismissing all other explanations.