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jstewartmobile ◴[] No.16406941[source]
I hate to have sympathy for the devil here, but I see their point.

Hackernews is living proof. Pre-election, you could voice a contrary opinion here and have a discussion. Post-election, even the faintest wrongthink shibboleth gets silently downvoted into oblivion.

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1. dang ◴[] No.16407835[source]
Only a small minority of HN users are in Silicon Valley, so your argument wouldn't apply here even if it were true.

When I see complaints like this I always look at the history. Usually the account in question has a pattern of posting flamebait and/or snark. In that case you needn't reach for political bias or 'wrongthink' to explain why the community downvotes such comments. They get downvoted simply because they break the site rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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2. jstewartmobile ◴[] No.16407932[source]
Perhaps not valley-centric, but definitely metro-area-centric, which tends to lean agnostic/globalist/liberal/capitalist/etc.

That, and wrongthink need not limit itself to politics. On HN we have it for technologies as well!

3. kelukelugames ◴[] No.16409792[source]
Are there user statistics? Would love to see them.
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4. dang ◴[] No.16415800[source]
You mean geographically? We're probably going to look at that again this week. If you email hn@ycombinator.com in a week or two we could send you the info. I might write a post about it.
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5. kelukelugames ◴[] No.16416131{3}[source]
Maybe with even more detail. Can we do a survey like Stack OVerflow? If not officially then can I do one?