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Noted, and happy to abide to the best of my ability. I'm confused by the phrase "ideological flamewar" though and would like to clarify: flamewar is the issue

Noted, and happy to abide to the best of my ability. I'm confused by the phrase "ideological flamewar" though and would like to clarify: flamewar is the issue right? E.g., flamewar over GPL would be equally undesirable. Tone and constructiveness, etc. Asking because the topic at hand is inescapably ideological, based as it is on an opinion piece and not "news", and the comments are equally so. (Enragingly so, which is what gets me into a tizzy).

dang 6y ago
That's basically right. Yes, it's a tricky line to draw because there is inevitably some overlap between politics/ideology and the stories that are on topic here. I've written about this quite a bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20political%20overlap&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, which shows how far back political discussion goes on HN, as well as the argument about politics on HN. If you take a look at those explanations and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd like to know what it is.