Comment by lovich
8 hours ago
The site is getting inundated with bots. For the past few months everytime I realize some poster I’m replying to is looping in replies or having gaping holes in logic, I check their account and it’s been made in the past few months and the early interactions it had were with other accounts made in the same pattern.
Then you also see shit like these posts that touch on the admin in a negative light getting insta flagged and nuked off the front page.
Don’t put blinders on. The problem isn’t new accounts (who can’t even flag). This community has always been subtly in favor of exactly this kind of suppression. Consider the fact that posting anything even slightly critical of YC on the YC subreddit gets one instantly shadowbanned. Then consider that this very community is modded by the same ilk of people.
What would you expect? The same kind of censorship, right? This is by design. The design can obviously be changed (e.g. don’t let only echochambery high karma accounts vouch for stuff).
Not gonna lie, you’re a new account and you ignored the majority of my comment, binning you in the “likely a bot” box as well
My account is primordial and I took long vacations from HN for precisely the reason he stated.
This site has always had a bad faith flagging/downvoting issue; the bots might make it worse, but the culture was always there.
6 replies →
[dead]
Someone accused me of being a bot and called me a clanker when we are talking about this.
I am extremely annoyed at hackernews right now
wtf is happening. someone said nice try clanker bcause of my username like (wtf/)
This community is feeling more hostile and less trustworthy I am sorry to say that