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What more can a person do than eat, drink, and take joy in their work?

by brody_hamer 1y ago

thrance 1y ago
[flagged]
- dang 1y ago
  "Don't be snarky." "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - thrance 1y ago
    Forgive me, but I feel like these guidelines are enforced very selectively. Paul Graham's last post against "wokeness" staying on the front page for two days left me with a very bad taste in my mouth. Why should his political crusades not only be allowed on here but also promoted? Similarly, why are some DOGE posts allowed to pass through the flag-filter but not others? I'll take your comment as a hint to take a break from HN. But please, do consider further detailing what kind of political content is acceptable or not.
    - dang 1y ago
      Your reply would make more sense to me if I had mentioned the HN guideline against using the site for political battle, but I didn't. The guidelines I listed your comment as breaking don't have anything to do with that. But here's a response anyhow—if you look at the past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... you'll find exhaustive explanations of how we approach politics on HN. If you read some of that and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it. I should add, though, that it's too much to expect moderation to be consistent. The principles by which we moderate HN are consistent, but it's not possible to apply them consistently to all the content. There's far too much content for us to read it all, and randomness is a major factor in sevreral different ways.
euvin 1y ago
That raises the question of what work they should pursue.

What more can a person do than eat, drink, and take joy in their work?

thrance 1y ago

[flagged]

dang 1y ago
"Don't be snarky." "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- thrance 1y ago
  Forgive me, but I feel like these guidelines are enforced very selectively. Paul Graham's last post against "wokeness" staying on the front page for two days left me with a very bad taste in my mouth. Why should his political crusades not only be allowed on here but also promoted? Similarly, why are some DOGE posts allowed to pass through the flag-filter but not others? I'll take your comment as a hint to take a break from HN. But please, do consider further detailing what kind of political content is acceptable or not.
  - dang 1y ago
    Your reply would make more sense to me if I had mentioned the HN guideline against using the site for political battle, but I didn't. The guidelines I listed your comment as breaking don't have anything to do with that. But here's a response anyhow—if you look at the past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... you'll find exhaustive explanations of how we approach politics on HN. If you read some of that and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it. I should add, though, that it's too much to expect moderation to be consistent. The principles by which we moderate HN are consistent, but it's not possible to apply them consistently to all the content. There's far too much content for us to read it all, and randomness is a major factor in sevreral different ways.

euvin 1y ago

That raises the question of what work they should pursue.