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HN has a strong US bias, which makes it tend right-wing compared to the rest of the developed world. Additionally, it also has a strong SV bias, which makes it
by KozmoNau7 7y ago
HN has a strong US bias, which makes it tend right-wing compared to the rest of the developed world. Additionally, it also has a strong SV bias, which makes it tend libertarian.
I'm not just making this up, you know :-)
- dang 7y agoYour picture of HN's ideological bias is an afterimage of things you notice and dislike. Those burn more into the retina. If you had opposite ideological tastes, you'd have the opposite afterimage, as many readers do. Here's one from this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461976. Don't like these examples? Here are others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325122 FWIW, HN's community is 50% in the US and 10% in SV. I don't agree that it has a strong SV bias. SV topics are common, but how commenters feel about SV—or what they imagine SV to be—is deeply divided and somewhat on the negative side. That's a natural consequence of the topics being divisive and so little of the community being based here.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoNo, it's a "burned afterimage", it's a clear observation based on reading HN for many years (and later signing up to comment). I don't base it on specific cases, it's an overall trend. Cherry picked examples aren't enough to change the fact that the dogpiling is real.