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Ask HN: What did you learn from the “no politics” experiment?
Elsewhere [1], dang discussed what the moderators learned from the no-politics experiment. The main thing: "a change like that won't solve HN's civility problem". He shared several other good learnings as well, in his original comment and the replies.
I'm curious, what did others learn from this experiment?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131585
- codegeek 10y agoI have a feeling that this post will turn political discussing what we learned from the no-politics experiment.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoMy take was it was too broad. Several things got taken out for "political" that frankly shouldn't have been. The post of YC’s Winter Reading List, as the list contained some political volumes, was the most silly to my mind. Book lists usually spin up excellent recommendations in the comments and are especially topical this time of year. Yet it got flagged off the front page and discussion died. An international story completely unrelated to US or EU politics, Trump or Brexit etc.
- jdp23 10y agoThanks, I had missed the discussion of the reading list!
- unlikelymordant 10y agoI learned some people get really bent out of shape if you tell them they can't talk about politics for a week. I noticed heaps of people complaining. As far as content goes, I didn't notice a difference.
- bendmorris 10y agoDisagreeing is not always equivalent to "complaining" or getting "bent out of shape." Plenty of people disagreed and said so.
- wingerlang 10y agoI didn't even know it ended. I read the initial post but since then forgot about it and HN seemed like usual business.
- jdp23 10y ago'wingerlang, I quoted you in https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/learning-from-hacker-news-political-detox-experiment-996db0187c35 https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/learning-from-hacker-n...