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Since this is a Paul Graham post, I'm gonna ask because it is the elephant in the room. Why has Hacker News been so quiet about Twitter? I think I know but I wa

Since this is a Paul Graham post, I'm gonna ask because it is the elephant in the room. Why has Hacker News been so quiet about Twitter? I think I know but I want my suspicions confirmed. I would prefer politics be kept out of Hacker News completely but the stories that don't appear seemingly lean in a single direction and it is turning me away now.

camillomiller 4y ago
I have noticed the same, and I would have the same question. I don't wanna think that it's because it's mostly a community of (male) Musk-Jack-SamAltman simps and wannabes that are just a good startup idea away from being billionaire themselves. A good, well elaborated answer, might help me to steer away from this conclusion.
ramblerman 4y ago
> I would prefer politics be kept out of Hacker News completely your post achieves the exact opposite. -- Either way it's pretty bad etiquette to hijack a thread for some completely different purpose. Don't let the inevitability of your your post getting flagged further your conspiracy narrative.
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imgabe 4y ago
You’re free to submit stories and say whatever you want. It should be pretty clear why nobody is talking about Twitter on a completely unrelated thread.
matthewmacleod 4y ago
I was a bit surprised myself, but after thinking about it - the discussions under the Twitter stories that I’ve seen on the front page have mostly rapidly deteriorated to the point of being pretty unedifying for everyone. That’s not surprising, since it’s a story that meets at the intersection of tech, business, politics, and controversial public figures. There are quite a lot of strong views on it, and in my experience this community doesn’t tend to deal in a particularly adult way with events like that. That kind of discussion usually sinks pretty quickly - I assume mostly because of the algorithm down-ranking overheated discussions. Then you have the general leaning of HN towards a bit of a libertarian, counter-mainstream narrative - it’s not hard to see that the pattern you describe being a natural outcome of all that, no shadowy motives required. It kinda sucks to be honest, because from many different perspectives it’s absolutely gigantic news with lots of really interesting stuff to think and talk about.
matwood 4y ago
There was a lot of Twitter news early on, but Musk continuing to act like a child is old news we don't need to see here again and again. I would prefer to see another Twitter story when there is actually a story and not simply 'someone was fired/hired/let on/kicked off'.

camillomiller 4y ago

I have noticed the same, and I would have the same question. I don't wanna think that it's because it's mostly a community of (male) Musk-Jack-SamAltman simps and wannabes that are just a good startup idea away from being billionaire themselves. A good, well elaborated answer, might help me to steer away from this conclusion.

ramblerman 4y ago

> I would prefer politics be kept out of Hacker News completely your post achieves the exact opposite. -- Either way it's pretty bad etiquette to hijack a thread for some completely different purpose. Don't let the inevitability of your your post getting flagged further your conspiracy narrative.

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imgabe 4y ago

You’re free to submit stories and say whatever you want. It should be pretty clear why nobody is talking about Twitter on a completely unrelated thread.

matthewmacleod 4y ago

I was a bit surprised myself, but after thinking about it - the discussions under the Twitter stories that I’ve seen on the front page have mostly rapidly deteriorated to the point of being pretty unedifying for everyone. That’s not surprising, since it’s a story that meets at the intersection of tech, business, politics, and controversial public figures. There are quite a lot of strong views on it, and in my experience this community doesn’t tend to deal in a particularly adult way with events like that. That kind of discussion usually sinks pretty quickly - I assume mostly because of the algorithm down-ranking overheated discussions. Then you have the general leaning of HN towards a bit of a libertarian, counter-mainstream narrative - it’s not hard to see that the pattern you describe being a natural outcome of all that, no shadowy motives required. It kinda sucks to be honest, because from many different perspectives it’s absolutely gigantic news with lots of really interesting stuff to think and talk about.

matwood 4y ago

There was a lot of Twitter news early on, but Musk continuing to act like a child is old news we don't need to see here again and again. I would prefer to see another Twitter story when there is actually a story and not simply 'someone was fired/hired/let on/kicked off'.