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		mewpmewp2 on Jan 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Would your life be better if you stopped v... Yeah, Reddit at times does seem like some bizarre group think type of thing in terms of how comments are downvoted or upvoted. Coming from Reddit, in Hackernews it seems people are more accepting of controversial ideas.

g-b-r on Jan 19, 2024 | [–]

If votes were visible, and everyone was allowed to downvote, Hacker News would indeed probably be a lot worse

Throwawayh89 on Jan 20, 2024 | [–]

This seems to have gotten much worse in recent weeks and I don’t understand why.

On a wide array of subs, spanning many topics. Moderators seem to be very quick suddenly to quash decenting opinions.

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