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> users hell-bent on hn being only about tech I think communities, like ours, having this attitude is very self-destructive. We can't keep trying to operate in
by vinhboy 9y ago
> users hell-bent on hn being only about tech
I think communities, like ours, having this attitude is very self-destructive. We can't keep trying to operate in a silo and exclude politics from our discussions. Especially when a lot of us work on tools that exasperate these political problems.
- FLGMwt 9y agoAbsolutely agree. Even from a purely economical sense, if the content we're exposed to is purely the [t]echo chamber of SV concerns, we end up with startups solving SV problems which is a pretty limited market.
- grzm 9y agoI understand where you're coming from. At the same time, not every forum is the appropriate forum for every discussion. Some are better suited for particular topics. The experience of discussing political issues on HN is often very fraught and I think it's a very open question as to whether it ends up being constructive or destructive to the HN community as a whole. I think it's very important to be able to talk about political issues. I'm not sure HN can consistently have constructive conversations on divisive topics and remain the platform it is.