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There is nothing wrong with a political argument. (It would be a very narrow minded view on business building and IT, if you'd think of them as apolitical.)
by Torwald 9y ago
There is nothing wrong with a political argument. (It would be a very narrow minded view on business building and IT, if you'd think of them as apolitical.)
- dang 9y agoHN's guidelines ask people to avoid, not political arguments as such, but flamewars, which is what they lead to on the internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. This isn't naively denying the political for the supposedly non-political—of course there are politics in everything. It's about the limitations of the internet forum as a medium. We can't have both flamewars and stay interesting, and the mandate of the site is to try to stay interesting. Flames are lame. Re "business building and IT", I suppose I should add that HN is absolutely not just about business and technology—never has been and never will be, as long as I have a say.
- Synaesthesia 9y agoI don’t know if I like this rule, I’ve had some great political discussions on HN and I don’t see why we shouldn’t discuss it. Many times I’ve seen posts removed for what I can only think are ideological reasons.
- dang 9y ago> for what I can only think are ideological reasons That perception tends to be in the eye of the beholder, in the sense that people of all ideological commitments see HN as being censored in favor of the opposite side, in proportion to the strength of their own feeling. I've written about this a bunch: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment&query=by:dang%20cognitive%20bias https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&date... https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment&query=13110004 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...