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Can you please share more details on the boundary between “intellectually curious” and “politically/ideologically charged”?
by amznbyebyebye 5y ago
Can you please share more details on the boundary between “intellectually curious” and “politically/ideologically charged”?
- pvg 5y agoThe two links of previous moderation comments are pretty much about that.
- dang 5y agoThe short answer is that they can and do overlap, but the primary use of the site should be for intellectual curiosity, and accounts using HN primarily for political battle have very different characteristics than that. Besides the links in my parent comment, there are past explanations here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... If, after reading some of those, you still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to try to answer it. Just please familiarize yourself with the material first, because all the obvious points have been pretty well established for years now—at least I think they have.