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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 bec
by 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 agoAre you saying this post is likely to be flagged as well? Tut tut.
- yareally 10y agoI 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 agoPerhaps 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 agoPolitical 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.