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It's even more curious that merely pointing out that you unevenly moderate triggers yet another link to the clustering illusion.

The truth is: we never will be able to know the biases of this community or mod team with accuracy, because hackernews doesn't expose enough data to be able to perform a meaningful analysis.

The call-out is disjoint from the rest of what you go on to say. I said you are _certainly_ biased. I didn't say how. Your comment starts with saying that people are predisposed to feel persecuted due to biases, which is somehow related to my use of the word, and then you go on to essentially confirm exactly the intention of my callout.

> That explains why the people you're most implacably opposed to also believe they're seeing the same thing, just in the opposite direction.

Cordially, I have no idea what you're talking about or referring to in this regard. Who is my enemy that you've invented here? I'm not representing a position on behalf of the community, other than to point out that this moderation has _some_ uneven biases, and it's always interesting when they show.

In the words of @tomhow

> The choice is yours to make an effort to observe the guidelines and be a positive contributor to HN, or alternatively to keep using HN for political/ideological battle

What's my political and ideological battle? Functional programming? Ai usage?

When political topics come up, I engage with the discourse. That's within the bounds of the spirit of this community.



I assumed you were the GP commenter and that created some confusion - sorry about that.

But now I'm confused why you consider it curious that we pop into threads and request that people follow the rules. That's obviously the job.


An observation of when the job is selectively exercised. It's clearly not evenly applied across all of the rules. There are some obvious applications, and there are some non-obvious applications.




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