[thisistheend123]

I feel that people who find HN good, do so for a reason.

They are the kind of people who are in majority in HN. They have similar views and when they comment here on HN their views are accepted and prompted more readily.

This makes it a kind of an echo chamber.

All deviants get banned or their comments are greyed out.

Dissenting is not allowed and dealt with severity and finality.

[Veen]

That’s fine though. It’s ok to have communities with shared interests and goals. Sometimes that means keeping out people who prefer something different. That’s ok too; they can start a forum for their community and impose whatever conditions they like. HN is just an Internet forum. It’s not a massive social media platform or a country where exclusionary rules can be damaging to large populations.