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No, no, no, no, no. Bad upvoters! Seriously. This is a politics piece. Worse, this is a partisan politics piece. Worser, this is a partisan politics piece masq

by hugh 18y ago

No, no, no, no, no. Bad upvoters! Seriously. This is a politics piece. Worse, this is a partisan politics piece. Worser, this is a partisan politics piece masquerading as a FAQ.

DanielBMarkham 18y ago
I'm going to do a FAQ on how political posters on HN are actually blathering idiots. It's nothing opinionated, mind you. I'll just review each political post, point out what little was accomplished, show how dissenting views were downvoted, and then make my humble conclusion from the available evidence, citing lots of authorities along the way. Of course my questions will be leading, and if you look at them closely you can see somebody trying to make an argument, but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! It's a FAQ, not an argument. Not an opinion piece. You see, if you use the word FAQ, that magically makes it something special.
- logjam 18y ago
  My. No offense, but for someone with such strong feelings and a little name-calling and all about political posts, you certainly seem to make a lot of political posts yourself. Tell you what. You make your FAQ, and I'll make a FAQ about how some political posters on HN who merely disagree with other political posters are actually blathering hypocrites. Nothing opionionated, mind you...wink...
  - DanielBMarkham 18y ago
    So you would rather argue politics then.
rms 18y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)
- hugh 18y ago
  Is that a new guideline, by the way? It wasn't there in the old days -- presumably it postdates the "flag" feature. In any case, I don't like that guideline much. Complaining about offtopicness is, in my opinion, the best substitute for downvoting. Sure, it means that every political story acquires a boring "!HN" thread, but that's exactly the point: the boring thread is the punishment for the story, and is designed to suck out all the oxygen from the _actual_ political debate which would otherwise ensue. I know I post rather a lot of comments complaining about political stories. This isn't because I'm not interested in politics -- it's actually because I'm very interested in politics and have to actively stop myself from getting involved in internet-based political arguments (something I swore off many years ago as a waste of time).

by hugh 18y ago

No, no, no, no, no. Bad upvoters! Seriously. This is a politics piece. Worse, this is a partisan politics piece. Worser, this is a partisan politics piece masquerading as a FAQ.

DanielBMarkham 18y ago

I'm going to do a FAQ on how political posters on HN are actually blathering idiots. It's nothing opinionated, mind you. I'll just review each political post, point out what little was accomplished, show how dissenting views were downvoted, and then make my humble conclusion from the available evidence, citing lots of authorities along the way. Of course my questions will be leading, and if you look at them closely you can see somebody trying to make an argument, but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! It's a FAQ, not an argument. Not an opinion piece. You see, if you use the word FAQ, that magically makes it something special.

logjam 18y ago
My. No offense, but for someone with such strong feelings and a little name-calling and all about political posts, you certainly seem to make a lot of political posts yourself. Tell you what. You make your FAQ, and I'll make a FAQ about how some political posters on HN who merely disagree with other political posters are actually blathering hypocrites. Nothing opionionated, mind you...wink...
- DanielBMarkham 18y ago
  So you would rather argue politics then.

rms 18y ago

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)

hugh 18y ago
Is that a new guideline, by the way? It wasn't there in the old days -- presumably it postdates the "flag" feature. In any case, I don't like that guideline much. Complaining about offtopicness is, in my opinion, the best substitute for downvoting. Sure, it means that every political story acquires a boring "!HN" thread, but that's exactly the point: the boring thread is the punishment for the story, and is designed to suck out all the oxygen from the _actual_ political debate which would otherwise ensue. I know I post rather a lot of comments complaining about political stories. This isn't because I'm not interested in politics -- it's actually because I'm very interested in politics and have to actively stop myself from getting involved in internet-based political arguments (something I swore off many years ago as a waste of time).