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It is not within the purview of HN. I almost always completely agree with everything posted at mises.org. That doesn't mean that I am interested in "convertin

by dtby 17y ago

It is not within the purview of HN. I almost always completely agree with everything posted at mises.org. That doesn't mean that I am interested in "converting" the denizens of news.ycombinator.com.

kiba 17y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I did not see anywhere in the guideline that say political stories are prohibited, just that they have to be gratifying hackers' intellectual curiosity. Does these submissions that made the front page sound uninteresting to you? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187459 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187459 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172670 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172670 So maybe I am responsible for a series of deadly interesting mises.org submission, but I still fail to see why it should be banned.
- dtby 17y ago
  Easy on the over-reaction. I've never asked anyone to be banned for anything. I've said that, even as the articles align with my political philosophy (and, yes, are interesting to me)... they should stop being both posted and upvoted (nee encouraged) here. Nothing more; nothing less.
solutionyogi 17y ago
Let me say that I am not interested in converting anyone into anything. I am a libertarian myself and I would at least love to spread the knowledge of libertarian philosophy and make people aware about the dangers of large government. I would also like people to know that politicians have not arrived from heaven, they are regular people like you and me, they care about their own self interest first (staying in power) and it's dangerous to think of them as saviors or messiah.
- gloob 17y ago
  I haven't had much sleep, so my apologies if I'm just misunderstanding, but this part: I am a libertarian myself and I would at least love to spread the knowledge of libertarian philosophy and make people aware about the dangers of large government. I would also like people to know that politicians have not arrived from heaven, they are regular people like you and me, they care about their own self interest first (staying in power) and it's dangerous to think of them as saviors or messiah. sounds like "I just want to inform people of my belief system and hopefully they'll start believing it too", which I feel is more or less synonymous with "I want to convert people". I mean, if I ran across a post like: Let me say that I am not interested in converting anyone into anything. I would at least love to spread the knowledge of Marxist philosophy and make people aware of the dangers of their corporate overlords. I would be rather confused at the apparent contradiction between the two sentences.

by dtby 17y ago

It is not within the purview of HN. I almost always completely agree with everything posted at mises.org. That doesn't mean that I am interested in "converting" the denizens of news.ycombinator.com.

kiba 17y ago

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I did not see anywhere in the guideline that say political stories are prohibited, just that they have to be gratifying hackers' intellectual curiosity. Does these submissions that made the front page sound uninteresting to you? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187459 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187459 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172670 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172670 So maybe I am responsible for a series of deadly interesting mises.org submission, but I still fail to see why it should be banned.

dtby 17y ago
Easy on the over-reaction. I've never asked anyone to be banned for anything. I've said that, even as the articles align with my political philosophy (and, yes, are interesting to me)... they should stop being both posted and upvoted (nee encouraged) here. Nothing more; nothing less.

solutionyogi 17y ago

Let me say that I am not interested in converting anyone into anything. I am a libertarian myself and I would at least love to spread the knowledge of libertarian philosophy and make people aware about the dangers of large government. I would also like people to know that politicians have not arrived from heaven, they are regular people like you and me, they care about their own self interest first (staying in power) and it's dangerous to think of them as saviors or messiah.

gloob 17y ago
I haven't had much sleep, so my apologies if I'm just misunderstanding, but this part: I am a libertarian myself and I would at least love to spread the knowledge of libertarian philosophy and make people aware about the dangers of large government. I would also like people to know that politicians have not arrived from heaven, they are regular people like you and me, they care about their own self interest first (staying in power) and it's dangerous to think of them as saviors or messiah. sounds like "I just want to inform people of my belief system and hopefully they'll start believing it too", which I feel is more or less synonymous with "I want to convert people". I mean, if I ran across a post like: Let me say that I am not interested in converting anyone into anything. I would at least love to spread the knowledge of Marxist philosophy and make people aware of the dangers of their corporate overlords. I would be rather confused at the apparent contradiction between the two sentences.