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Topics Verboten on HN
In my 9 months here, I've noticed certain topics will either be wilfully ignored or quickly downvoted. These are the ones that come up for me:
What's wrong with socialism.
What's wrong with nuclear power.
What's wrong with Elon Musk.
What's wrong with Uber.
It doesn't matter how factual the content, these topics are always slammed. We have a lot of smart people on HN. Why the fear of open discussion on these verboten subjects?
Which ones have you discovered?
- greenyoda 7y ago"What's wrong with socialism" seems to fall under the topic of politics, which is off-topic on HN according to the official guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I've seen quite a bit of criticism of both Musk and Uber (I'm not a fan of either). For a recent example of the latter, see the comments in the article about Uber's IPO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19879500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19879500
- mimixco 7y agoYet many posts here suggest socialist principles. There's one today about guaranteed employment. So suggesting socialism is ok but countering that isn't?
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