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In the same vein, I suggested discussing who we voted for the US Elections and why (I also mention SJW's bullying speakers off of campuses)- and my Ask HN was f

In the same vein, I suggested discussing who we voted for the US Elections and why (I also mention SJW's bullying speakers off of campuses)- and my Ask HN was flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12932905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12932905). I figured it would be timely and on-topic as a result: "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." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I figured it might help us see things from each other's point of view, and thus gratifying of intellectual curiousity. Perhaps I was mistaken.

yareally 10y ago
I think there's a group of users on HN, including myself that wishes politics were not on the site. One can go almost anywhere to find political discussions because the threshold to join them is so low. Sometimes tech related politics gets a pass on here, but anything else tends to lead down a path of a low signal to noise ratio for insightful site content.
- aaronchall 10y ago
  Are you saying this post is likely to be flagged as well? Tut tut.
  - yareally 10y ago
    I only flag abusive comments, so it won't be flagged or downvoted by me at least.
- mistermann 10y ago
  > One can go almost anywhere to find political discussions But where do you go to find intelligent political discussions. For those of you who don't frequent /r/politics, it was completely taken over by HRC's Correct The Record team, the minute the election was over the character of the sub changed completely. You have to admire how effective they were.
  - yareally 10y ago
    Perhaps someone should start such a site? I fear if you let that kind of discussion on HN without any curation, it will just become like every other site that allows full scale political discussion. Pretty much a fire hose. You might be right in that there isn't a good place to discuss it, but I don't think HN is the the solution for it.
    - mistermann 10y ago
      Political discussion in non-political threads could be very damaging to HN overall, I'd be fully supportive of a very short leash outside of threads that aren't explicitly political, but we should be able to have political threads, I can't see how that is harmful at all. If HN can't have these discussions then god help us all.
melling 10y ago
It says "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

yareally 10y ago

I think there's a group of users on HN, including myself that wishes politics were not on the site. One can go almost anywhere to find political discussions because the threshold to join them is so low. Sometimes tech related politics gets a pass on here, but anything else tends to lead down a path of a low signal to noise ratio for insightful site content.

aaronchall 10y ago
Are you saying this post is likely to be flagged as well? Tut tut.
- yareally 10y ago
  I only flag abusive comments, so it won't be flagged or downvoted by me at least.
mistermann 10y ago
> One can go almost anywhere to find political discussions But where do you go to find intelligent political discussions. For those of you who don't frequent /r/politics, it was completely taken over by HRC's Correct The Record team, the minute the election was over the character of the sub changed completely. You have to admire how effective they were.
- yareally 10y ago
  Perhaps someone should start such a site? I fear if you let that kind of discussion on HN without any curation, it will just become like every other site that allows full scale political discussion. Pretty much a fire hose. You might be right in that there isn't a good place to discuss it, but I don't think HN is the the solution for it.
  - mistermann 10y ago
    Political discussion in non-political threads could be very damaging to HN overall, I'd be fully supportive of a very short leash outside of threads that aren't explicitly political, but we should be able to have political threads, I can't see how that is harmful at all. If HN can't have these discussions then god help us all.

melling 10y ago

It says "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."