If 2-3 people decide that this warrenm fellow needs to be pushed out of the website for whatever reason they currently can coordinate and start flagging your posts left and right at every opportunity until you are effectively banned.
It will turn into reddit. Groups will start raiding each other over politics. Coordinated upvotes are not allowed, I don't see why grudge/group flagging should be.
If 2-3 people have enough clout they can get me "effectively banned" ... meh
This is a website that offers fake internet points to its users
I can create a new user (if I really wanted to) in a few seconds
You really are hung up on these fake internet points ... and I do not understand why
(also, per your link to the HN guidelines " Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.")
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But is absolutely 100% wrong ... unless your only goal is to eliminate downvotes
If 2-3 people decide that this warrenm fellow needs to be pushed out of the website for whatever reason they currently can coordinate and start flagging your posts left and right at every opportunity until you are effectively banned.
It will turn into reddit. Groups will start raiding each other over politics. Coordinated upvotes are not allowed, I don't see why grudge/group flagging should be.
If 2-3 people have enough clout they can get me "effectively banned" ... meh
This is a website that offers fake internet points to its users
I can create a new user (if I really wanted to) in a few seconds
You really are hung up on these fake internet points ... and I do not understand why
(also, per your link to the HN guidelines " Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.")