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Edit: I'm not a mod, nor trying to masquerade as one. > Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual

by hazz99 8y ago

Edit: I'm not a mod, nor trying to masquerade as one. > Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity [0] Please keep your ideological battles away from HN. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

crankylinuxuser 8y ago
Rather than threats, I'd like to hear commentary. If anyone's "destroy[ying] intellectual curiosity", its the one threatening bans. I've made a point, from multiple sources, that SV major players are retarding salaries from all but the C-level positions. Considering that YC is in that area, it would be a rather interesting discussion to hear from the VC's vs workers vs founders. But, threats.
- hazz99 8y ago
  > it would be a rather interesting discussion to hear from the VC's vs workers vs founders. I'd love to hear that conversation, I think it'd be very interesting. That is very tangential to commentary on capitalism itself, which is purely ideological.
tomcam 8y ago
Sticking up for my ideological opposite crankylinuxuser again. HN is constantly used for political and ideological battle. Why is crankylinuxuser's different?
- hazz99 8y ago
  Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, so you don't have to listen to my opinion. This article is about low-skill workers, and has nothing to do with tech companies being against unions. But, it could simply be a tangential discussion, and those are often interesting! My main concern was the Capitalists are well known to conspire together and create capitalist unions to block workers of all stripes. generalization, which turned a potentially interesting discussion of tech unions into an "capitalism vs. xyz" ideological battle.
  - crankylinuxuser 8y ago
    > Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, so you don't have to listen to my opinion. So... You're masquerading as a HN mod? Damn. Now, that seems like a bannable offense.
    - hazz99 8y ago
      I'm not trying to masquerade as a mod, I'm trying to gently suggest that ideological battles be fought elsewhere, and for us to focus on the discussion itself (tech unions). I've edited my first comment to make it more apparent - I thought that sort of comment was a common thing, but perhaps I'm wrong.
  - tomcam 8y ago
    Excellent point. I concede.

by hazz99 8y ago

crankylinuxuser 8y ago

Rather than threats, I'd like to hear commentary. If anyone's "destroy[ying] intellectual curiosity", its the one threatening bans. I've made a point, from multiple sources, that SV major players are retarding salaries from all but the C-level positions. Considering that YC is in that area, it would be a rather interesting discussion to hear from the VC's vs workers vs founders. But, threats.

hazz99 8y ago
> it would be a rather interesting discussion to hear from the VC's vs workers vs founders. I'd love to hear that conversation, I think it'd be very interesting. That is very tangential to commentary on capitalism itself, which is purely ideological.

tomcam 8y ago

Sticking up for my ideological opposite crankylinuxuser again. HN is constantly used for political and ideological battle. Why is crankylinuxuser's different?

hazz99 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, so you don't have to listen to my opinion. This article is about low-skill workers, and has nothing to do with tech companies being against unions. But, it could simply be a tangential discussion, and those are often interesting! My main concern was the Capitalists are well known to conspire together and create capitalist unions to block workers of all stripes. generalization, which turned a potentially interesting discussion of tech unions into an "capitalism vs. xyz" ideological battle.
- crankylinuxuser 8y ago
  > Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, so you don't have to listen to my opinion. So... You're masquerading as a HN mod? Damn. Now, that seems like a bannable offense.
  - hazz99 8y ago
    I'm not trying to masquerade as a mod, I'm trying to gently suggest that ideological battles be fought elsewhere, and for us to focus on the discussion itself (tech unions). I've edited my first comment to make it more apparent - I thought that sort of comment was a common thing, but perhaps I'm wrong.
- tomcam 8y ago
  Excellent point. I concede.