I put lists like that together sometimes to answer specific user questions—primarily when I can't use an HN Search link because there's no search query that's precise enough.
That one stuck around because the perception that it corrects (of HN moderation being against $COUNTRY, where $COUNTRY = China in this case) shows up semi-regularly—as does the opposite perception, of course. These things always come in opposing pairs.
As a side note, it's interesting to see how different users react to reading such a set of comments, i.e. comments that contradict their assumptions about how HN is moderated. In some cases the reaction is something like, "Wow, I had no idea - thanks for the information" and the person presumably goes on to adjust their priors. In other cases the reaction is a complex explanation of how none of that matters and the original perception remains intact, even though it's inaccurate.
Ah that makes sense, as “see: ‘by:dang [$topic]’” is a pretty frequent sight, thanks for the explaination.
>It’s interesting to see how different users react to reading such a set of comments…
I’ve noticed this myself and I’ve always been surprised at the wide variety of users that fall into either of these buckets. You sort of expect this from new(er) accounts. But some of the arguments from created: ~2000’s, karma: 20,000+ accounts in detached threads are wild.
I suspect this comes from a lot of moderation actually being quite transparent, but not obvious. If one has any interest they can actually go learn a lot w.r.t. moderation. But zero information is forced unless one goes looking or eventually runs afoul.
In the lack of a story, it’s easy to invent a lot of assumptions about what is done and why. People inevitably see the invented assumptions of others and repeat them.
Or perhaps there are some topics where its so close to home that any slight, real or perceived, makes it impossible to be reasoned with.
Yes, and yes, economic autarky (which is what this “let’s bring industry back to America” thing actually is) is usually associated with nationalism and other such stuff (I personally call it Mussolinian, but someone may come and mention List, who was a 19th century German, so to each his own)
Are you referring to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315543 If so, it seems wildly unrelated to "BRING MANUFACTURING BACK TO AMERICA".