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But nothing has changed recently in the culture of HN that would recommend using alt accounts to push conservative viewpoints. However, there’s been a big uptick of these new accounts in the past 6 months or so.



So conservative view points have always been downvoted quickly?

It may have to do with the fact that your main account may be connected to your identity, and if you work at Google for example, uttering conservative view points might get you fired.




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