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Per pg, very important political discussion has ALWAYS been off-topic on HN.
by coderdude 15y ago
Per pg, very important political discussion has ALWAYS been off-topic on HN.
- quinndupont 15y agoOh engineers. Shirking morality again.
- tptacek 15y agoThis comment (verbatim, "Oh engineers. Shirking morality again.") is an extremely elegant statement of why political threads, even when they "gratify the intellectual curiosity of hackers", are terrible for HN: they generate comment threads that consist of or are repeatedly sparked by comments like this.
- _delirium 15y agoI have a related but different complaint about them: political threads are bad because they bring out a chorus of rose-tinted nostalgia about how HN is going down the drain, is "becoming Reddit", etc., etc. I only hope that y'all copy/paste them instead of wasting effort on writing a new comment to that effect each time. ;-)
- msg 15y agoThis is Hacker News. We don't copy and paste text. That would be a waste of time and energy. We write Greasemonkey bots that talk to each other. -- SnarkTron TM 2012 Edition --
- lawnchair_larry 15y agoAlso, we have to read about Tom telling us that he flagged something.