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Do you actually care about what happens on this website or is this just a good chance for you to emerge randomly and make some arch point about how stupid every
by prescriptivist 4y ago
Do you actually care about what happens on this website or is this just a good chance for you to emerge randomly and make some arch point about how stupid everyone is for falling for this garbage?
- idlewords 4y agoI don't have a particular attachment to this website, but I admire 'dang for doing the hard work of moderating it, and for doing so in an honest and transparent way for a very long time now. So it bugs me to see people disparage that work by insinuating darker motives.
- prawn 4y agoAnd he's pretty transparent about wanting discussions satisfying intellectual curiosity. I'd guess that a lot of Twitter discussions are dampened (e.g., from hitting the front page) because the chance that they'll engender that sort of discussion is very, very low. I think the idea is that Hacker News isn't the place where you discuss anything tech in any way you want, but where you have that certain mode of discussion (rather than certain bias of viewpoint).