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This is a year ago and isn't technical or the usual HN content. I'm curious why it's ranking. Some sort of current event I missed that's related?
by mmaunder 5y ago
This is a year ago and isn't technical or the usual HN content. I'm curious why it's ranking. Some sort of current event I missed that's related?
- baq 5y agoHN isn't a technical-only site. Never has been.
- mikepurvis 5y agoIndeed, and even if someone wasn't interested in the historical value of what was lost, there's still the matter of the process failure that allowed it to happen (or covered up that it was happening, depending on your level of cynicism).
- teddyh 5y agoOutrage wallowing. The kind of that you get here is a bit different from what you get in publications aimed at other audiences, but that is essentially what it is.
- happytoexplain 5y agoWhat is "outrage wallowing"?
- teddyh 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrage_porn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrage_porn
- happytoexplain 5y agoI see - "wallowing" implies different parties and motives than the more normal concept of getting outrage-driven clicks. However, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with outrage media. It's a pretty reasonable thing to report on, and it's reported on pretty reasonably. It's both important and interesting, so the fact that it is also outrageous seems irrelevant to the implication that it shouldn't be observed or commented on. You might make an argument that nothing old should be posted, and I would disagree, but that too seems like an argument unrelated to whether or not something is outrageous merely for the sake of getting clicks.
- throwawayawy 5y agoit's pathetic to watch really, I imagine majority of the commenters here are wearing che guevara t-shirts.
- pmontra 5y agoIt got on HN one year ago too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376236
- ivanstame 5y agoThey are coming to Serbia, shit will happen!