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HackerNews happens to share your values and opinions on things like religion and politics. Donald Trump just won the election; did you read the opinions of peop

HackerNews happens to share your values and opinions on things like religion and politics. Donald Trump just won the election; did you read the opinions of people here on this happening? And while we may not be pushing a Flat World, there are plenty of conspiracy theories and ignorance on topics (eg. banks), and a fanaticism with regards to a other things (eg. Tesla) . Opposing views on these sorts of topics are smashed with down votes. My point is, of course it feels comfortable amongst like minded people. But don't extrapolate that to mean this is somehow a special place that's uniquely accepting of all opinions. If you don't believe me, do what the guy in the article did, and play devil's advocate in a few comment threads here.

reitoei 10y ago
Fair point. Edit: The Trump thing, from my perspective, seemed to get wrapped up in one post and then people moved on. I'm with you on the Tesla worship.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
  I think the Tesla fans are more vocal with their praise. There are some detractors. And I think there's a lot of people here who, like myself, don't have much to add to the conversation and keep quite.
thenomad 10y ago
I've seen a few Trump supporters posting. They weren't popular but in comparison to most other sites I visit opposing views were more tolerated.
- fein 10y ago
  We're around, we just keep it under wraps. HN has a hard liberal slant. There are a lot of bleeding hearts in SV, so not much of a point to bring political views into tech discussions. I try to avoid any "technical" convos on what people fear may happen when legislation doesn't even exist in the planning phases yet. Too many irrationally scared people to have those exchanges.
TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
HackerNews happens to share your values and opinions on things like religion and politics. I don't believe that to be true. Firstly "Hacker News" isn't a coherent whole, and also in any politically charged discussion here there are always diametrically opposing views.
slantyyz 10y ago
>> HackerNews happens to share your values and opinions on things like religion and politics. There are pretty diverse political views here. I don't know if you remember all the HN discussions on Brendan Eich's political donations a while back, but things got pretty heated on both sides. The for and against arguments pretty much drowned out any opinions in the middle.

reitoei 10y ago

Fair point. Edit: The Trump thing, from my perspective, seemed to get wrapped up in one post and then people moved on. I'm with you on the Tesla worship.

TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
I think the Tesla fans are more vocal with their praise. There are some detractors. And I think there's a lot of people here who, like myself, don't have much to add to the conversation and keep quite.

thenomad 10y ago

I've seen a few Trump supporters posting. They weren't popular but in comparison to most other sites I visit opposing views were more tolerated.

fein 10y ago
We're around, we just keep it under wraps. HN has a hard liberal slant. There are a lot of bleeding hearts in SV, so not much of a point to bring political views into tech discussions. I try to avoid any "technical" convos on what people fear may happen when legislation doesn't even exist in the planning phases yet. Too many irrationally scared people to have those exchanges.

TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago

HackerNews happens to share your values and opinions on things like religion and politics. I don't believe that to be true. Firstly "Hacker News" isn't a coherent whole, and also in any politically charged discussion here there are always diametrically opposing views.

slantyyz 10y ago

>> HackerNews happens to share your values and opinions on things like religion and politics. There are pretty diverse political views here. I don't know if you remember all the HN discussions on Brendan Eich's political donations a while back, but things got pretty heated on both sides. The for and against arguments pretty much drowned out any opinions in the middle.