[torrent-of-ions]

Here on HN you'll be banned if you're not careful too.

[sctb]

You get banned on Hacker News for violating the guidelines, and it's possible to share contrary opinions without doing so. See also: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20linkless%20martyr&so....

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14942874 and marked it off-topic.

[LyndsySimon]

Do you have an example of that?

My experience on HN is that there exists a small minority of users who might shout you down, but I've never seen or heard of a user being banned for discussing something like this in good faith.

[jshevek]

I've seen it claimed, without substantiation, that anyone who argues against the fashionable position can't possibly be doing so "in good faith" - because the unfashionable position itself is declared to be a bad faith position.

I've seen this repeatedly on HN.

[torrent-of-ions]

Well the very comment you replied to has been detached for being "off topic".

[micahbright]

I've seen several comments flagged for no reason - what they have in common is that they cogently refute liberal ideology