[dang]

HN isn't a person, it's a distribution of millions of people. If you think of it as a statistical cloud, it won't seem so paradoxical (e.g. "bipolar").

I don't follow your reference to Nietzsche but if it's relevant here, the same point would surely apply to any group. I try not to lose too much sleep over problems with HN that stem from humans in general. It's hard enough to change the few things we can.

[mlevental]

>HN isn't a person, it's a distribution of millions of people.

is obvious. what is insidious is the ideology that is preached on almost every controversial thread that papers over that fact.

[dang]

That perception usually seems to be more related to the strength of one's own ideological commitment than to the actual state of the threads. People on each side perceive the community to be biased, and people who are intensely on one side perceive the community to be extremely biased.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22...

[mlevental]

i'm not going to do a study of the culture of hn because i am not an anthropologist but i have many times responded to comments that were vile, that broke the rules, that did not get flagged because they toed the party line, that were in effect supported by the community

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17032257

a selectively enforced set of laws becomes defacto discriminatory and ideological: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

[chickenfries]

Exactly, my comment was mild compared to the highly upvoted and ridiculous top comment you linked.