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> I think a few political articles on the front page a day is okay, but It can easily turn into around the clock flame-war. It will always turn into a flame wa
by generic_user 10y ago
> I think a few political articles on the front page a day is okay, but It can easily turn into around the clock flame-war.
It will always turn into a flame war because most of these threads are either posted by activists, or they attract activists. Activists are not interested in a 'conversation', they post to win control of the thread by calling in a brigade to out post and down vote the other side.
Anyone can put together a brigade of a few hundred people in a matter of minutes on reddit or irc.
You have two options in this environment. You can have a politically neutral technology focused board and remove the incentive for activists. Or you let them run a muck and turn your board into a signal booster for there activism and destroy the commuinity.
- geezerjay 10y agoThat's precisely how I see it. Activists are trying to manipulate HN to disseminate their particular partisan point of view, and in the process they are manipulating this forum to focus on serving their private agenda and in the process ruining it for all of us who come here for the tech stuff. And people like me come here for the tech stuff, not some activist's political agenda and their bile-spewing.
- thescribe 10y agoIt's like a form of parasitism on an already successful platform.
- maxerickson 10y agoComing for the tech stuff is a private agenda too.
- geezerjay 10y ago> Coming for the tech stuff is a private agenda too. The site is called Hacker News, not anti-Trump news.
- maxerickson 10y agoFirst of all, I couldn't resist the childish double entendre. Second, 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. not 'On topic: tech stuff'.