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>>zdw+(OP)
The moderation mechanisms are the very tools that enforce this cult-like mentality.

And threat of suppression, of course.

>>OnlyRe+04
Bit of an awkward moment for a searing indictment, as we'd just turned off flags on the OP. With suppression like that, who needs promotion?

It's a common misconception, but Hacker News really isn't identified with or immersed in Silicon Valley. Those of us moderating it are largely on the margins of SV and always have been, and the community by no means has its center of gravity there. It's globally distributed and on the whole rather anti-SV in orientation.

(The parent was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182520 but I detached it to contain this offtopicness.)

>>dang+X5
If you're actually asserting HN doesn't censor, and wouldn't censor even more if people actually felt free to express their true opinions here, I question you're intellectual honesty.

>>nevero+M6
People use the word 'censor' to mean so many different things, it's not possible to assert anything coherent in general. We do some of those things, there are others we don't do, and it's not as if any of it is secret. Some people like to ask questions about this stuff and get answers, others prefer to rage against the machine. To each their own.