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You get banned on Hacker News for violating the guidelines, and it's possible to share contrary opinions without doing so. See also: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20linkless%20martyr&so....

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14942874 and marked it off-topic.

Do you have an example of that?

My experience on HN is that there exists a small minority of users who might shout you down, but I've never seen or heard of a user being banned for discussing something like this in good faith.

I've seen it claimed, without substantiation, that anyone who argues against the fashionable position can't possibly be doing so "in good faith" - because the unfashionable position itself is declared to be a bad faith position.

I've seen this repeatedly on HN.

Well the very comment you replied to has been detached for being "off topic".

I've seen several comments flagged for no reason - what they have in common is that they cogently refute liberal ideology