That's just way inappropriate. Probably the only reason your comment isn't [dead] is you're in a discussion about moderation.
I wouldn't attack Dan so personally. Instead, think of the community here. There is a hint of who they are in the following quip. Actually it explains things well enough that it tends to get downvoted whenever I post it. Perhaps because it hits a little too close to home:
HN is open minded about intellectual inquiry as long as that inquiry doesn't challenge anything an average Californian already believes
I don't remember exactly where I found that. But just think about it. There are so many people on HN from the Bay Area. The submissions, discourse, and moderation all reflect that "bias". What you're observing is simply an emergent behavior.
Do those numbers also hold true for % of submissions, % of comments, % of upvotes/downvotes, etc?
If you have a cosmopolitan group of "users", but the most active ones are largely from the Bay Area, then the point about Bay Area groupthink still stands.
That's just way inappropriate. Probably the only reason your comment isn't [dead] is you're in a discussion about moderation.
I wouldn't attack Dan so personally. Instead, think of the community here. There is a hint of who they are in the following quip. Actually it explains things well enough that it tends to get downvoted whenever I post it. Perhaps because it hits a little too close to home:
HN is open minded about intellectual inquiry as long as that inquiry doesn't challenge anything an average Californian already believes
I don't remember exactly where I found that. But just think about it. There are so many people on HN from the Bay Area. The submissions, discourse, and moderation all reflect that "bias". What you're observing is simply an emergent behavior.