[diggan]

Meh, as long as you're contributing more than you upset people, it seems to balance itself out. I've made some egregious comments in the past (judging by the downvotes at least), yet you can still see this comment and probably my future ones too.

And even though some comments I've made been downvoted, they've stilled spawned interesting conversations, so I count that as a win regardless.

[npodbielski]

So conformists that trolls from time to time? :)

[immibis]

HN has not just self-reinforcing consensus through karma, but also imposed false consensus through moderation decisions. I've just been informed that flagging and voting from my account have been disabled (they appear to work, but don't actually do anything) because I didn't flag all political sides in equal numbers. It seems my account has been identified as "a side", therefore is subject to equality requirements. Meanwhile, obviously mass-flaggings by "the other side" accounts permeate the site every day.

[npodbielski]

You have been informed that they shadow banned you? For side? In what politics?

[sadeshmukh]

Informed by who?

[immibis]

By dang, the moderator, via email.