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Can Hacker News not rise above the partisan politics that pollute every other site? Why am I seeing this trollish post here?
by mproy 12y ago
Can Hacker News not rise above the partisan politics that pollute every other site? Why am I seeing this trollish post here?
- finid 12y agoI think your concern is addressed in the "HN Guidelines" "What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. " More at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mproy 12y agoSeeing as the post has pretty much disappeared from the site (not in the first 10 pages) only 1 hour later, I'm feeling pretty confident about my assessment of it's quality and contribution.
- dang 12y agoYou're likely seeing this post here because it's tangentially related to the debate on PG's recent essay. > Can Hacker News not rise above the partisan politics that pollute every other site? I think we know the answer to this because the phenomenon is relatively stable: it appears from time to time, perhaps too often, but doesn't dominate HN and isn't about to. With a little more karma, you'll be able to flag the posts that you find too political.