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It's a duplicate of previous discussions, the one gaining the most traction being https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25575321 https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
by afuchs 6y ago
It's a duplicate of previous discussions, the one gaining the most traction being https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25575321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25575321
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25597144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25597144
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25597142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25597142
Another possibility is that political topics (in this case "cancel culture") tend to be controversial enough, to be flamebait, that these topics tend to get flagged
- Rochus 6y agoDuplicate discussions don't seem to be an issue (I see a lot of them, and someone usually posts a hint to previous discussions). It's also not an arbitrary "political" topic, but a request of recognised computer scientists to the Association for Computing Machinery. If everything would be flagged that anyone could get upset about, soon we wouldn't be discussing anything at all.
- dang 6y agoIf a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we bury reposts as duplicates. After a year (or so), it's fine, and that's why you're seeing links to previous discussions. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.