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What a world this would be if the 40+ comments on this post were actually about the article's subject matter.

• jbpetersen 10y ago
  Hacker News has a policy of avoiding political articles. The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Therefore Hacker News commenters post off-topic politics. Hacker News could really benefit from a sister site that focuses on current politics and political issues as a way to draw it away from Hacker News itself.
  • Zikes 10y ago
    But Tumblr already exists. Honestly, though, that's what 4chan did with /b/ and that seems to work. Though externally most people associate 4chan with /b/, it does free up the other communities on the site to run smoothly, or so I'm told. Still, judging by most of those comments in here I think people are just eager for an excuse to "call out" someone's missteps. They say it's just a suggestion, or a recommendation, but the implicit warning is there: do what we say or we'll make you hurt. The fear is obvious, given the number of green throwaways people have made just to try to have a rational argument.