Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

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dang ◴[14 Jul 20 18:17 UTC] No.23835613[source]▶

All: HN has been seeing a dismaying increase in nationalistic flamewar. This is not allowed here. I know it feels important when you're caught up in the intensity of such feelings, but it is not interesting, which is what HN is for. Worse, it has the effect on interesting discussion that tank battles have on a city park.

If you don't have something thoughtful and substantive to say, please don't post until you do. Drop denunciatory rhetoric—it's tedious and evokes worse from others.

Remember that the community is divided on divisive topics and that the person disagreeing with you is probably not a spy, but just someone who disagrees with you.

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

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dang ◴[14 Jul 20 18:30 UTC] No.23835804[source]▶

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This is a stub comment to collect replies in one place. That way we can collapse it and prevent too much offtopicness at the top of thread.

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GuiA[dead post] ◴[14 Jul 20 19:29 UTC] No.23836596[source]▶

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Attempts to build constructive conversations in these threads are almost always met with heavy flagging/downvoting. My own personal experience is that any comment that isn’t 100% backing the CCP falls to a negative score in a matter of minutes. Sometimes it goes back to 0/1 over the following hours, sometimes not. I’ve been on HN almost 10 years and that’s almost always been true, but it’s gotten much worse in recent years. Speaking to others, I know I’m not alone.

The standard mod answer is that you all are aware of voting rings and there’s no CCP astroturfing on HN, but many regular users feel like that’s not the case, so clearly there’s a disconnect here.

Edit: lol at this comment being -1 minutes after posting it