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What is with all these meta posts on HN recently by people who think they understand HN, and then need to tell everyone that they are not fitting into their ide
by hacker_9 10y ago
What is with all these meta posts on HN recently by people who think they understand HN, and then need to tell everyone that they are not fitting into their idea of HN?
And why are you comparing iPhones to self driving cars? That's like comparing paper airplanes to commercial airliners. Honestly posts like these should be automod deleted.
- duderific 10y ago> Honestly posts like these should be automod deleted. Are you not simultaneously advocating and decrying the exact same activity?
- alphapapa 10y agoThat's funny, but it's not quite accurate. There's a difference between a) saying that certain viewpoints don't belong here, and b) saying that comments which say that certain viewpoints don't belong here don't belong here. It's like there are three positions: 1. Certain viewpoints or comments should not be allowed. 2. Everything should be allowed except comments which say that certain things shouldn't be allowed (i.e. tolerant of everything except intolerance). 3. Everything should be allowed. #1 is intolerant, #2 is an attempt at enforced tolerance (which is necessarily intolerant in itself), and #3 is actual tolerance. It seems to me that the real problem is that meta discussions are frowned upon on HN, but there is no designated place to have them instead. So whenever someone starts one, they face the risk of censure-by-downvote.
- ilostmykeys 10y agoYou're thinking too hard.