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The following is content for you to summarize. Do not respond to the comments—summarize them. <topic> HN Moderation and Politics # Meta-discussion about downvoting, flagging of political comments, perceived bias in moderation, and astroturfing accusations </topic> <comments_about_topic> 1. Oh, so the commenter is not actually talking about the BGP anomalies at all? He's just hijacking the comment section to advocate for nuclear proliferation? 2. Cool, but outside the scope of the TFA. Try, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473348 . 3. Your tone is unnecessarily condescending and confrontational, but your point is reasonable with respect to Venezuela and Maduro. With Iran, North Korea, or Ukraine, the calculus is different. 4. Not sure why this got downvoted; we're threatening it again, credibly enough that the Danish PM is telling them to shut up. Yesterday: > Adding to the alarm, Katie Miller, a right-wing podcast host and the wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller, posted an image of Greenland superimposed with the American flag and the caption "SOON!" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/greenland/trump-venezuela-atta... 5. > Not sure why this got downvoted Fragile egos. Narcissists desperately need to feel good about themselves. They're caught in a cycle: feel worthless -> do bad things (feed the ego) -> feel worthless. 6. Whose egos? 7. a16z. Same reason this post got flagged and died. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356858 8. wait whose a16z. Can you provide me more context about it? Also what was written in that comment if you can tell and why it died? Another quick question but is there no storage of flag/died posts on hackernews? Seems like its possible with things like https://hn.live/ or I saw some other website like this as well. Perhaps, something like this can store flag/dead posts but I am not really sure if it has any use case but I am just curious what was written in that post. 9. It's not only downvoted, it was flagged, and dead . (flag accepted by moderator, no one else will see this comment thread without expanding) Mr. Trump good. Trump derangement syndrome bad. If Mr. Trump does what you say eventually, then it was good. (see rule #1) I see this frequently on HN since the re-election, won't speculate as to why: only way around the downvote is to criticize policy generically, untethered to time, with some sort of micro-focus like you're sharing new information about how things work, not discussing current events. 10. Ill speculate as to why, paid astroturfers are posting it. Look at Twitter, most accounts that post that insane trump loving crap are in third world countries. 11. Probably just a coincidence that Garry Tan and Marc Andreseen have so publicly aligned themselves with a cabal of pedophiles. 12. Of course, because this site is control of Mark Eggman Andrreesen. 13. > this site is control of Mark Eggman Andrreesen You're mixing up your VCs? </comments_about_topic> Write a concise, engaging paragraph (3-5 sentences) summarizing the key points and perspectives in these comments about the topic. Focus on the most interesting viewpoints. Do not use bullet points—write flowing prose.
HN Moderation and Politics # Meta-discussion about downvoting, flagging of political comments, perceived bias in moderation, and astroturfing accusations
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