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It depends on the topic, with posts that are mostly about technical stuff (which of course is most things that get posted on HN) there's generally no hint of an
by p1necone 4y ago
It depends on the topic, with posts that are mostly about technical stuff (which of course is most things that get posted on HN) there's generally no hint of any of that.
But when anything gets posted that can be linked to race, or celebrates some minority, or talks about the climate I notice a disturbing amount of people crawl out of the woodwork and post some truly awful/ignorant things.
- roughly 4y agoYeah, I guess reflecting on this, there are a lot of good conversations that happen here, and because of that, I forget how much terrible shit also gets posted here. A lot of it gets downvoted into oblivion, but the bell curve on quality’s got some fat tails.
- p1necone 4y agoYeah I'm kinda the same. I stick around because interesting/useful stuff gets posted here, and the discussion is mostly also interesting/useful. But some days I wonder if I really want to hang around in a space where comments about "race realism" and obviously willfully ignorant climate change denialism are tolerated. (like you said they usually get downvoted into oblivion, but not consistently enough for me to be comfortable that those people aren't still a fairly large minority of those engaging in discussion on this site).