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i wasn't talking about comments on hn - i was talking about comments on the linkedin post.
by mlevental 7y ago
i wasn't talking about comments on hn - i was talking about comments on the linkedin post.
- dang 7y agoSorry, I completely misread that! The principle still applies though. It's a swerve into a generic controversy to which people's responses will be indignant and predictable. There's no curiosity in such discussion, and therefore it's off topic for HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mlevental 7y agoi don't understand what kind of curiosity an article like this could inspire at all. if you allow these kind of controversial articles you might as well allow the ensuing partisan debate.
- dang 7y agoI understand why you'd say that, but the suggestion doesn't generalize. Even if we exclude articles like this one, there will still be many other articles with controversial and political overlap. Excluding them all isn't an option, and neither is allowing "ensuing partisan debate" to burn wild. I wrote about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013092. If you read that and still think there's something I haven't addressed, I'd be curious to hear what it is.