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I thought ycombinator tried to stay away from political stuff? I've been around for years and that was usually the case. Why is there a popular post about drug
by TheCenterSeat 4y ago
I thought ycombinator tried to stay away from political stuff? I've been around for years and that was usually the case. Why is there a popular post about drug addiction and the response from "Washington"? This isn't tech related.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
I'll quote the guidelines here:
"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."
Most comments here are political. Did I miss a blog post that says to be politicans?
- tyingq 4y agoThe article doesn't seem to be favoring either party. "Presidents from both parties failed to take effective action"
- Zircom 4y agoThe guidelines also say not to comment complaining that a submission is off topic or inappropriate for HN, so you need to make up your mind on whether you actually wanna follow them or not.
- dang 4y agoSome intellectually interesting stories have political overlap. It's possible to discuss them in a thoughtful way, without descending into political or ideological battle. Past explanations on this point: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...