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I think this was the wrong move. The original source is better in this case and you are letting your anti-corporate bias and personal opinion affect your decisi
by pb7 4y ago
I think this was the wrong move. The original source is better in this case and you are letting your anti-corporate bias and personal opinion affect your decision making as a moderator. What makes this so awful to read to you?
- devwastaken 4y ago3rd party sourcing isn't anti-corp. The purpose is to seek a more neutral position. Apple is clearly motivated to say positive things about Apple.
- pb7 4y agoIt has never been about seeking a neutral position. What is neutral about Vitalik shilling the Ethereum ecosystem?[0] He's clearly motivated to say positive things about it. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33878216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33878216
- geraneum 4y agoThe posts here don’t have to be neutral! There are a lot of blog posts, opinion pieces and opinionated comments. That’s actually good.
- dang 4y agoAnti-corporate bias is a pretty good bias for the editor of HN to be accusable of. It's a lot more common to hear the opposite and I know which one I prefer (and makes my life easier). I don't mean to be flippant—you're right that personal opinion is affecting my judgment. I plead that (1) this is inevitable; (2) I do my best to make calls that are good for the community as a whole; and (3) there are vastly more times when I squash my personal preference in favor of #2. The basic point here is that corporate press releases are their own genre and that that genre goes against HN's mandate at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.