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Censorship has its uses. I often open these China threads on HN just to add users to my cosmetic filter.
by scarcely 8y ago
Censorship has its uses. I often open these China threads on HN just to add users to my cosmetic filter.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoCan you provide more details regarding your cosmetic filter and why posters from a post on China would be good candidates? It’s not clear to me from your post.
- scarcely 8y agoI'm not a programmer, I'm an academic. Topics in my academic specialty routinely get posted on HN. When they do, I browse the comments section, look for users who exhibit many signs of lacking rigor and/or intellectual honesty, and add to my filter accordingly, on the grounds that their opinions on programming topics are probably not worth reading either. I'm also a Chinese person. China matters is like an extra AOS for me and so I apply cosmetic filters for the same reasons