Comment by thisislife2
3 hours ago
Yeah. I was just replying to someone's personal political perspective (which met the HN post guidelines) that I partly agreed-disagreed with - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983014 - but after typing out my thoughts on it, I found that I couldn't post a reply to it because it has now been flagged. That's 15+ minutes of my time wasted. And their time wasted. Which as you pointed has a "chilling effect" on the whole discussion, and is the intent.
That's not even what I had meant, but yes damn I have been bitten by that same thing many times. Sometimes I reflect and go yeah I guess I was just going to be feeding the trolls. But other times there was really good faith discussion to be had. It's especially galling with the thread kills.