[luffapi]

You didn’t answer my questions. Are you suggesting we don’t teach those very real historical facts I mentioned because some sensitive racists may take it personally? Since when is that a reason to distort the truth?

Edit: HackerNews has decided to throttle me because I’m not a hivemind reactionary. I’m really close to highlighting what’s really going on in this “community” in a more public forum dang.

[scohesc]

Why do you have to make random threats towards website moderators when trying to explain your point of view? Seems like you're being disingenuous and you're not coming to this discussion with the ability to stop yourself and see things from other points of view.

[luffapi]

The “other point of view” is white supremacy (aka the only people in the world concerned with “critical race theory”). The mods not only allow white supremacy on this site, they censor those who complain about it!

I literally got downvoted and throttled for saying slavery was real and talking about the very real genocide of Native children in Canada. What’s next, Holocaust denial?

[dang]

You're no doubt getting downvoted because you're posting tons of flamewar comments, which is not what this site is for, regardless of how right you are or feel you are, and regardless of your views.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your account is getting throttled because it's rate-limited. We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars. I haven't checked the logs to see when your account got rate-limited but it certainly wasn't today, and it has zero to do with your ideology or your views.

[scohesc]

You're likely being throttled because of the number of posts you're making, as well as some sort of auto-moderator system where if someone gets downvoted a lot in a short time, the system thinks you're a spammer and throttles you.

As to why you're being downvoted I can only hazard a guess - You're likely being downvoted because you're making accusations using words that have very strong meaning and implication behind their use, and don't fit well with this discussion.

Saying the mods only allow white supremacy on this website is laughable. There's no way for you to prove this - I'd like to see you try. If there was actually white supremacy in this group, we wouldn't have such a diverse group of people (intellectually, physically, culturally, geographically, etc) to come here to discuss (in most cases) tech news related to readers' fields - it's part of why the internet is as popular as it is.

People who are regular contributors and commenters to the Hacker News forum usually bring more to the table than simple name-calling and insult-hurling. There's also wonderful ideas you can try yourself like critical thinking, opening your mind to other opinions, stopping yourself before making baseless accusations, etc.! It's fun.

[luffapi]

I literally just listed historical facts. Point to my accusations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539652

There’s nothing “fun” about this site. It’s the embodiment of the worst of our industry. It’s literally spewing AM radio quality right wing propaganda. I don’t think the people here are as intellectually curious as you claim.

[scohesc]

Then you're always welcome to find another website to share your thoughts with. :)

[dang]

No personal attacks, please, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. You crossed that line not only with this comment, but also upthread ("you can try yourself like critical thinking").

Edit: it looks like your account has been using this site primarily for ideological battle. That's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and when an account is using HN primarily for that, that's the line at which we ban them (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). I'm not going to ban you for this right now because we haven't warned you before, but please review the guidelines and use HN in the intended spirit going forward.

We're trying to avoid having this site be engulfed by the hell of ideological flames and burning itself to a crisp. Scorched earth is not interesting, and it's the default outcome on the internet. We're trying to stave it off here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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