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Comment by ChrisGranger | Hacker News Reader

"At this point HN is no different than 4chan." -gim

When people spout utter nonsense like this, I fear there's no reasoning with them.

Yea, there is one difference between here and 4chan. 4Chan is less likely to curb your freedom of speech. Sad that a site now owned by the Japanese promotes American Constitutional Freedoms more than an actual American-owned site.

1 - i agree with that sentiment

2 - your comment is exactly why.

Let me explain, first you express your opinion as a matter of fact. Their opinion is nonsense? Why not pose a question as to why one may think that? Consider the culture of 4chans various boards and some of the herd mentality you see on hn.

I can tangibly see on a daily basis trite comments which add nothing of value be upvoted because it expresses commonly held approved opinions (ie. Anti amazon comments or issues with nimbys in sf)

However someone echo a concern about the importance of us military intelligence infrastructure by virtue of supporting msft contracts with the us military, someone is downvoted as a warmonger with little discussion.

The shitposts are real randy

To claim that Hacker News "is no different than 4chan", a site where one can routinely find the most vile posts of racism, violence, child pornography and so on is utter nonsense, and that is a fact, not merely my opinion.

Agree, this place isn’t remotely like 4chan in any way.

Ok - aside from lets agree to disagree, im not equating the content are the same.

I am equating the manner pf discourse and conversation flow.

Its rather disingenuous of you to think people are claiming racism violence and child pornography here.

Besides, 4channel is now heavily modded to be sfw since it has been acquired from moot and the owner is trying to drive ad revenue.

It isnt 2008 - and please again, stop passing opinion as fact chris granger. I expect greater from hn posters.

I get some solid content here, but to downvote on disagreement and then ignote2a genuine attempt to exchange ideas is discomforting to see.

I dont anticipate you to understand and i thoroughly expect this to simply be downvoted.

If 4chan is heavily moderated and work-safe now, then I stand corrected in that regard. It's been a long time since I've been there. My reference to racism, violence and child pornography was to indicate the vast difference between the two sites' moderation and the sorts of 'toxic' things that were deemed acceptable at 4chan and unacceptable here. Although as you say, things must have improved greatly since I was last there.

Any downvotes you've received were not from me.

>Its rather disingenuous of you to think people are claiming racism violence and child pornography here

krapp did that in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19655230. You might need to turn showdead on in your profile to see it.

Ah - yea that's just plain silly right there. And frustrating bc it throws the meta discussion out the window

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