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Comment · 3 years ago
If a "truth era" did exist, it was definitely before the current era of "math and acronyms are racist" and "men can get pregnant".
Comment · 3 years ago
This is true, I agree. Reddit is heavily moderated in both.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes! Reddit has this exact same feature.
Comment · 3 years ago
>HN is much more heavily moderated than those websites.

This couldn't be further from the truth. Reddit is orders of magnitude more heavily moderated than HN. Your average run of the mill subreddit has more moderators than the entirety of HN.

>Which is a good thing, it's why conversations here tend to be of a higher quality.

I think the conversations here are higher because of the userbase, not dang's moderation. The site doesn't lend itself to the toxic userbase that reddit and tumblr has.

>I don't think the HN style of moderation would scale to places like Reddit even if they wanted it.

There are subreddits with more scale than HN, with more moderation. Scale is definitely not an issue.

Comment · 3 years ago
Relative to other large social media sites (reddit, Tumblr, Twitter pre-Elon, etc.) HN is a bastion of free speech. Reddit being possibly the least free of them all.
Comment · 3 years ago
Unfortunately the Mastodon instance that Oxide decided on is flooded with leftist activists and SJW types. One of the rules is a leftist shibboleth, "no colonialism".

That rule makes no sense in the context of a social media site.

Comment · 3 years ago
Seethe.
Comment · 3 years ago
>Still thinking about this.

We know. Facts don't care about your feelings. Cope.

>You're living rent free in my head!!!!!

Soydev max cope.

Comment · 3 years ago
Cope.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for agreeing it's therapeutic. Rent free. I won.
Comment · 3 years ago
>I think the fact

That's not a fact, it's a delusion you just invented.

>that a pro-gun target shooter wouldn't seek real therapy

Shooting is real therapy. It's therapeutic.

>is sad since they're a danger to themselves :(

Everyone is a danger to themselves.

>Imagine all the therapy they could have gotten with the money they wasted on guns!

Expendable income and health insurance are two completely different buckets of money.

Three times in a row you've played yourself. You're batting like the Washington Nationals.

Comment · 3 years ago
>I personally think therapy is great and will help gun owners protect themselves from the greatest threat they face, which is their mental health!

"I personally think therapy (shooting targets) is great and will help gun owners protect themselves from the greatest threat they face, which is their mental health (greatest threat all Americans face)!"

Imagine posting exactly what a pro-gun target shooter would post and think it's snark. Congrats, you just played yourself again. Thanks for agreeing.

Comment · 3 years ago
Gun owners don't need more guns, they need therapy!

(This post is hilarious since gun owners frequently call shooting "therapy". Many gun owners would unironically say/type this exact same comment. Congrats, you played yourself.)

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