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Has anybody noticed a subtle shift and broadening of Hacker News’ remit since the Reddit protests

• white_dragon88 3y ago
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• dpifke 3y ago
  See the last line of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That said, I agree this post is mostly off-topic. I've found uBlock origin really useful for filtering off-topic stuff on HN; please feel free to import/adapt my custom rules from here: https://pifke.org/hn.txt https://pifke.org/hn.txt. (The domain for this story was just added.)
  • bacchusracine 3y ago
    Thank you for the list. I left Reddit for a reason and have no desire to recreate it elsewhere, Lemmy forays aside. I appreciate that you were willing to share this with the rest of us.
  • dimmke 3y ago
    I understand why that is there and am even a little embarrassed (I've always rolled my eyes when people make accusations about astroturfing, and I've definitely looked at that page before but the last line escaped my notice.) However, the last month has been exceptional with respect to what is going on at Reddit and that context should be considered. I think it elevates it above a generic "wow is HN reddit now" gripe. This wasn't the first thread that made me think this, it was the thread about the "Russian coup" a few days ago.
  • bacchusracine 3y ago
    I seem to be having issues with the script now: https://i.imgur.com/4nH4yYp.png https://i.imgur.com/4nH4yYp.png It's removing the headlines but keeping the rest so I suspect it's not working as intended.