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> We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635382. Well, golly gee, thanks! That's

> We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635382. Well, golly gee, thanks! That's gonna generate some insightful discussion. I don't recall seeing very much thought to the left of Bernie Sanders/AOC on here (which is to say, left of the entire American mainstream). I'll believe that when I see it.

dang 4y ago
Look closer! There are quite a few accounts representing further-left positions on HN. Look up claudiawerner or deanCommie or one or two of the accounts posting in this thread (edit: oops, I meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637686 - got my controversies mixed up). That's no problem as long as they stay within the site guidelines. Indeed, it's good for intellectual diversity. We do our best to protect accounts like that when we see majority prejudices acting unfairly (as well as other minority viewpoints, including strongly disagreeing ones). Of course those politics are less represented on HN than others, but they're less represented in society too. I'd guess they're rather more represented on HN than they are in the population at large, given HN's semi-intellectual orientation. (Only 50% HN users are in the US, btw, last I checked.) As for detaching this subthread- if we aren't going to mark a big-ass ideological meta subthread off topic, I'm not sure what we would. That's one of the most boring, generic, and pointless offtopic tangents there is. (Btw, nearly everyone who makes large claims on that note is completely wrong, because people's perceptions about this are determined by their own pre-existing positions. That's why the question of which way HN is like-totally-biased is decided so differently by every camp. If you want examples, there are dozens at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870.)

dang 4y ago

Look closer! There are quite a few accounts representing further-left positions on HN. Look up claudiawerner or deanCommie or one or two of the accounts posting in this thread (edit: oops, I meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637686 - got my controversies mixed up). That's no problem as long as they stay within the site guidelines. Indeed, it's good for intellectual diversity. We do our best to protect accounts like that when we see majority prejudices acting unfairly (as well as other minority viewpoints, including strongly disagreeing ones). Of course those politics are less represented on HN than others, but they're less represented in society too. I'd guess they're rather more represented on HN than they are in the population at large, given HN's semi-intellectual orientation. (Only 50% HN users are in the US, btw, last I checked.) As for detaching this subthread- if we aren't going to mark a big-ass ideological meta subthread off topic, I'm not sure what we would. That's one of the most boring, generic, and pointless offtopic tangents there is. (Btw, nearly everyone who makes large claims on that note is completely wrong, because people's perceptions about this are determined by their own pre-existing positions. That's why the question of which way HN is like-totally-biased is decided so differently by every camp. If you want examples, there are dozens at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870.)