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> it's a bit more difficult to figure out if the domain Shouldn't get it flagged by the rules though. You could script the domain to be beside the original si
by aaron695 5y ago
> it's a bit more difficult to figure out if the domain
Shouldn't get it flagged by the rules though.
You could script the domain to be beside the original site and do a HN tag like 'Ask HN:' 'Translated:'
That's a lot of work that might be for nothing.
Different cultures and how they present the news brings in conflict to monocultures like HN (IT Nerds). People complaining about X has news ads with accidents on the side for instance.
It also allow loopholes to no News rules, since a tabloid murder might be big in country X but not in English.
It also would educate people in other cultures and things bigger than what the Western media feeds us. Bruce Schneider was wrong the other day because he used Western media, rather than jumping on cyber documents the Chinese government publishes.
And wonky translate is probably the world's largest written language after Engrish as the largest spoken language.
Hard to know where the stability would lie. I think it might add valuable information and is a small iteration. The information is hugely valuable, but might not be useable on HN.
- eesmith 5y ago> Western media Your definition of "Western media" appears broad enough that it includes HN itself, as a US-based organization with US-based moderators. As such, no matter what changes HN staff might make make, it would still be part of the Western media feeding us. Of the 120 or so Google Translate links submitted in the last 1.5 years, only 5 appear to have a non-Western focus: 4 about China, and 1 on Japan. Many more were about Germany. (Note: I stopped at 1.5 years because the [dead] links disappear beyond then. I am assuming they were removed from the database.) By comparison, English language submissions from non-Western media doesn't appear to have the same high dead rate as non-English/Google Translate links. Examples (enable showdead to verify): The Hindu - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thehindu.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thehindu.com Times of India - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=indiatimes.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=indiatimes.com Al Jazeera - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=aljazeera.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=aljazeera.com Korea Times - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=koreatimes.co.kr https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=koreatimes.co.kr Korea Herald - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=koreaherald.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=koreaherald.com iAfrikan - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=iafrikan.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=iafrikan.com Therefore I don't think the issue is "links to non-Western media are flagged and killed."