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HN is intended for technology news and discussions. Allowing social justice, and identity politics to take over has diluted its usefulness. Empathy has nothing
by Simulacra 6y ago
HN is intended for technology news and discussions. Allowing social justice, and identity politics to take over has diluted its usefulness. Empathy has nothing to do with it, it's more like commenters appear frustrated over the constant non-technology issues.
- dang 6y agoPeople have been saying things like this for nearly as long as HN has existed. Lots of examples at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869. HN's approach hasn't changed. If you want to read about what that approach is, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... has lots of explanations. The particular themes that show up have changed, of course, but that's because of macro trends in society at large. HN can't expect to be immune from those.