[irishcoffee]

> HN works very hard to avoid becoming politicized and not discouraging minority views is a large part of that.

> For example, I now seldom bother to write anything that I expect to rub the left coast folks the wrong way: I don't care about karma, but downvoted posts are effectively hidden. There is little point of writing things that few will see.

These two statements don't seem to agree with each other.

[ptero]

Why? Work hard doesn't mean fully succeed.

HN policies and algorithms slow the slide, and keep it better than reddit, but the set of topics that allow one to take a minority opinion without downvoting keeps shrinking. At least compared to the time 10-15 years ago.