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> It wouldn't have made the front page if people hadn't been interested in it and upvoted it. u/dang has stepped in before and quoted the rules when things go
by libria 6y ago
> It wouldn't have made the front page if people hadn't been interested in it and upvoted it.
u/dang has stepped in before and quoted the rules when things go off the rails. Clearly, the esprit de corps is not the best measure for what is best for HN. I don't think it's right to handwave the rules just because the majority vote to ignore them.
But,
> The story isn't really politics or crime
Mostly agree. It's in that niche category "publicizing my issue w/ Megacorp for traction" and HN has been used/abused as a vehicle for it often. Mods haven't stepped in, so I guess it's ok? And as a programmer, I would sympathize with the underdog as well, even it were against my own employer.
- noxer 6y agoI would sympathize with the underdog too. Thats not the problem. The problem is that we collectively support "the wrong" way to resolve such problems. Wrong as in it doesn't solve anything but a specific incident. We know nothing really changes and next week we have another similar incident. And we also know that 99+% of similar incidents never get resolved because they could not reach the virality needed. This is some kind of mob internet justice that just doesn't work at scale and we should not be participating here this platform is for news.