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HN is emphatically NOT a physics course imho. It's a social space, not a forum for content from authority. Maybe the thing we need is a mechanism to "dose" on

by patcon 9y ago

HN is emphatically NOT a physics course imho. It's a social space, not a forum for content from authority. Maybe the thing we need is a mechanism to "dose" on sharing of political thought every so often, without allowed it to overwhelm: A day of the week or a megathread, where we can then engage with our community in political convo of substance...

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Bartweiss 9y ago
> we can then engage with our community in political convo of substance This is damned optimistic. It's not as though politics doesn't show up on HN, and when it does the results are usually unpleasant and uninformative. I'm not opposed to politics-on-HN because it's a formal space, I'm opposed because historically the results have been inflammatory and useless. I suppose its possible that structured exposure would work better than 'natural' discussions arising from politics-related links, but I"d intuitively expect the opposite. "Political threads" with no clear prompt are especially easy to derail, and I'm scared that any major experiment with this would damage HN.