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I love HN technical discussions. I wish to god we could ban all the political/corporate/lifestyle discussions. I say this as someone who lacks the discipline
by LAC-Tech 4y ago
I love HN technical discussions.
I wish to god we could ban all the political/corporate/lifestyle discussions.
I say this as someone who lacks the discipline not to get sucked into them, but nevertheless regrets it when he is.
- the_only_law 4y agoTechnically a lot of that is is off topic, but rules are selectively enforced (via community at least)
- version_five 4y agoEven for the political discussions, HN still has the least-bad discussions on the internet, which I think is why people keep engaging in them. The only discussions that really bother me are the reddit style stuff Cough... https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=amichail https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=amichail You can often spot the impact of "why is the sky blue" type posts in that there are no discussion threads, it's just a long list of one-of "Rayleigh scattering" replies