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oh wow, it's real. I'm not that active on hn, but is this a normal thing here?

by zaruvi 7mo ago

bigyabai 7mo ago
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- silexia 7mo ago
  Stop stalking me. Remove me from your notifications.
  - dang 7mo ago
    We need you to stop using HN primarily for political battle. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This problem goes back quite a while, so please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562450 (Jan 2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522257 (Oct 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27752754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27752754 (July 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20789929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20789929 (Aug 2019)
    - silexia 7mo ago
      Fair point. I have been trying to reduce political comments since you pointed this out. My request is that if HN wants to avoid political comments, HN should update its policy to not allow political posts. Otherwise the temptation is sometimes too great.
      - dang 7mo ago
        That won't work for a ton of different reasons that we learned the hard way. One is that there's no agreement about what counts as "politics". Another is that if you try to exclude politics, the effect is to motivate political commenters into posting even more—understandably so, from their perspective. Probably the most important reason is that there's a fair body of content that is on topic for HN but also has political overlap: 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.... So HN will always have a certain amount of politics and all we can do is ask people to keep it to a relatively low percentage of what they do on HN, to respect the site guidelines while they do it, and to remember the intended use of the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- dang 7mo ago
  You can't target a specific user like that here, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. Please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

oh wow, it's real. I'm not that active on hn, but is this a normal thing here?

by zaruvi 7mo ago

oh wow, it's real. I'm not that active on hn, but is this a normal thing here?

bigyabai 7mo ago

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silexia 7mo ago
Stop stalking me. Remove me from your notifications.
- dang 7mo ago
  We need you to stop using HN primarily for political battle. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This problem goes back quite a while, so please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562450 (Jan 2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522257 (Oct 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27752754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27752754 (July 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20789929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20789929 (Aug 2019)
  - silexia 7mo ago
    Fair point. I have been trying to reduce political comments since you pointed this out. My request is that if HN wants to avoid political comments, HN should update its policy to not allow political posts. Otherwise the temptation is sometimes too great.
    - dang 7mo ago
      That won't work for a ton of different reasons that we learned the hard way. One is that there's no agreement about what counts as "politics". Another is that if you try to exclude politics, the effect is to motivate political commenters into posting even more—understandably so, from their perspective. Probably the most important reason is that there's a fair body of content that is on topic for HN but also has political overlap: 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.... So HN will always have a certain amount of politics and all we can do is ask people to keep it to a relatively low percentage of what they do on HN, to respect the site guidelines while they do it, and to remember the intended use of the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
dang 7mo ago
You can't target a specific user like that here, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. Please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html