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You are free to choose the many other communities on the internet if you don't like this one.
by i386 8y ago
You are free to choose the many other communities on the internet if you don't like this one.
- seattle_spring 8y agoI'm quite fine here, thanks! And you are free to scroll on to other comments if you don't like the ones you are reading.
- sethrin 8y agoI have lots of political opinions, which I enjoy expressing, and even the lame in-jokes on Slashdot were special in a sense. A lot of techies are quite witty, and humor is an essential part of human expression. I think that both of these things absolutely destroyed that forum, and that the rules are vital to the utility of Hacker News. As you say, there are other forums which have fewer rules about self-expression -- and those forums provide a continually renewed justification for HN's content guidelines.