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It's "off topic" or "going to devolve into a flame war" if I had to guess. Or, sometimes it's "we're tired of seeing US politics on the front page." It's bogus
by drewbug01 4y ago
It's "off topic" or "going to devolve into a flame war" if I had to guess. Or, sometimes it's "we're tired of seeing US politics on the front page."
It's bogus, in my opinion. Continually ignoring this problem and repressing discussion of it leads to poor outcomes (to put it lightly).
- krapp 4y agoEvery time an incident like this happens, Hacker News squares off into its pro and anti-gun camps and has the same futile charade of a "discussion." At some point we have to concede these threads are mostly only useful for catharsis and political sniping, nothing we say or do here is going to have any real effect.
- soco 4y agoWhile you're perfectly right, the same argument can be made about just any discussion, be it Java code formatting or enterprise agile implementation... Discussions are useful for those who can get something from them, and can be ignored by the rest.