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482 points ilamont | 4 comments | 11 Jul 20 21:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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kubanczyk ◴[11 Jul 20 23:01 UTC] No.23806927[source]▶
Mods, thank you all for saving the day every day. Thank you a hundred times. (On behalf of these 99% of lurkers that benefit your work the most but never say anything.) (Flag this.)
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Sebb767 ◴[12 Jul 20 00:07 UTC] No.23807376[source]▶
Yes! Dang is doing such a great job. We tend to have really awesome discussions here and for the first few months on this site, I didn't even realize it was moderated. Hats off to him.
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1. verroq ◴[12 Jul 20 11:14 UTC] No.23810524[source]▶
Dang does a good job? He does a good job of shutting down discussion that strays from the leftist agenda. Deleting anything that doesn't conform to the SV brand of wokeness while leaving up comments from leftist extremeists.

It has become impossible to talk about anything slightly controversial that detractors don't even try since they'll just get downvoted and flagged into oblivion.

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2. zzzcpan ◴[12 Jul 20 12:10 UTC] No.23810745[source]▶
I sort of agree, he's definitely trying to enforce policies to advance an agenda while claiming pretty subjective justifications [1] for any action that he takes to shut down discussions. But to me that agenda looks like it's just about rich capitalist interests - just trying to make this place mostly corporate, capitalist friendly, not satisfy anyone's interests and "intellectual curiosity" as he likes to claim.

[1] Subjective justifications cannot teach anyone anything, as people can't know what exactly is the problem, only that they have to shut up, because moderator doesn't like what they are discussing.

3. DanBC ◴[12 Jul 20 12:12 UTC] No.23810755[source]▶
> since they'll just get downvoted and flagged into oblivion.

That's other users, not dang.

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4. verroq ◴[12 Jul 20 12:50 UTC] No.23810945[source]▶
This generally occurs after Dang has shut down the discussion for an arbitrarily reason, usually for “being inflammatory” when more “inflammatory” leftist commentary, usually in the same thread, are left untouched.