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This is a bit tangential, but I wish we weren’t seeing links to tweets showing up as hn stories. It’s not a legitimate news source, and it bans people left and
by gentleman11 6y ago
This is a bit tangential, but I wish we weren’t seeing links to tweets showing up as hn stories. It’s not a legitimate news source, and it bans people left and right for nothing because they have such serious botting and conspiracy theory problems
- paxys 6y agoHN isn't just for discussing "legitimate news sources" (whatever that even means). People can post anything they want from any source.
- gentleman11 6y agoYou can’t say anything of substance in 280 characters, or find room to cite references. It’s just a bunch of disembodied statements meant to go viral to build peoples followings or get people mad, with no meaningful discussion back and forth (for the same reasons). Maybe I’m just getting old, but Twitter seems like a bad way to get and share information, even without the random bans. Apologies if I just haven’t seen the good parts of Twitter yet
- paxys 6y agoThat is debatable (I personally don't agree with your view at all), but regardless people are still allowed to post and discuss meaningless content here.
- gentleman11 6y agoI’m not talking about being allowed, I’m talking more about spending the extra moment to find a non Twitter information source before submitting articles, and to hesitate before upvoting a Twitter link when there are som many other great stories under new
- chocolateboy 6y ago> You can’t say anything of substance in 280 characters Your preceding comment is 247 characters.
- gentleman11 6y agoAnd it would make a poor hn story