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Not an admin, just a user, but read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories a
by ptaipale 10y ago
Not an admin, just a user, but read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
There's nothing very interesting in vilifying Thiel.
- 4ad 10y agoOn the contrary, the fact that we had, and continue to have numerous threads, and thousands of comments means it is very interesting to the community.
- jrs235 10y agoThe fact that it keeps getting flagged to death shows something too.
- ythl 10y agoPolitics creep into every news aggregate out there. I kind of like the idea of Hacker News not being one of them.
- tnones 10y agoIndeed it does. Flags are disabled here, and now we get a long and extensive back and forth of all the sorts of arguments normally shut down as bigoted tout court. Excuses from above about it being good for the community strikes me as eerily similar to the "national security" argument: in order to defend a free community from those who seek to harm it, we don't need to uphold the principles that it was founded upon. Hm.
- striking 10y agoI'd agree with you, but they have a point in not moderating this one away, since it's critical of YC.