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> (on the grounds that political correctness is somehow more abhorrent than the behavior that is being critiqued) Or perhaps PC stuff is not so much abhorrent

by tjic 15y ago

> (on the grounds that political correctness is somehow more abhorrent than the behavior that is being critiqued) Or perhaps PC stuff is not so much abhorrent as deeply deeply BORING and un-related to what we want to read here at HN?

pyre 15y ago
It affects our industry and a number of people care about such issues. Would you say that SOPA articles should be killed because politics are boring (or a waste of time)?
- Karunamon 15y ago
  After the first one? Yes. This is the reason I unfollowed r/technology over on Reddit, it's the same stuff (ACTA and SOPA and PIPA! Oh my!) day in, and day out. I appreciate being informed about badly written laws that could impact the internet and its users. What I don't appreciate is echo-chamber hand-wringing over how horrible a certain law is, day in, and day out. Yeah, I agree with the folks saying the laws are crap, but there's not going to be any productive discussion there - just a group bitchfest, which while cathartic, gets precisely nothing done. Put another way, it gets boring after the third time or so.
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GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
I would guess that any given technology-related topic is deeply deeply boring to a significant slice of the HN readership but we don't flag them just because cloud computing or database design is not a personal interest. We know that if it's a subject we find boring we can just not read it. It's the "sexism in technology" posts that are reflexively flagged and to me that suggests something more than boredom is at work, perhaps an unease with the whole topic. As if certain people can't even stand the idea being discussed anywhere around them.
- DanBC 15y ago
  There have been plenty of sexism in technology posts recently, many of which were not flagged and got many up votes and spent some time on the first page. But something with a stupid subject line ('OH HAI SEXISM' or whatever it was) is going to be flagged very quickly by lots of people. Especially if there have been lots of sexism in tech threads recently, especially if there have been threads about the same company recently. By "boring" people don't mean "not interesting to me"[1] they mean "unlikely to generate useful or interesting discussion". People tend to know exactly what they think about some subjects (Abortion, circumcision, "middle east problem", etc.). Thus, discussions about those subjects tend to have people talking at each other, not listening to each other, not sharing information. There are many places to have those discussions. It's nice that HN is free of that kind of discussion.

by tjic 15y ago

pyre 15y ago

It affects our industry and a number of people care about such issues. Would you say that SOPA articles should be killed because politics are boring (or a waste of time)?

Karunamon 15y ago
After the first one? Yes. This is the reason I unfollowed r/technology over on Reddit, it's the same stuff (ACTA and SOPA and PIPA! Oh my!) day in, and day out. I appreciate being informed about badly written laws that could impact the internet and its users. What I don't appreciate is echo-chamber hand-wringing over how horrible a certain law is, day in, and day out. Yeah, I agree with the folks saying the laws are crap, but there's not going to be any productive discussion there - just a group bitchfest, which while cathartic, gets precisely nothing done. Put another way, it gets boring after the third time or so.
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GiraffeNecktie 15y ago

I would guess that any given technology-related topic is deeply deeply boring to a significant slice of the HN readership but we don't flag them just because cloud computing or database design is not a personal interest. We know that if it's a subject we find boring we can just not read it. It's the "sexism in technology" posts that are reflexively flagged and to me that suggests something more than boredom is at work, perhaps an unease with the whole topic. As if certain people can't even stand the idea being discussed anywhere around them.

DanBC 15y ago
There have been plenty of sexism in technology posts recently, many of which were not flagged and got many up votes and spent some time on the first page. But something with a stupid subject line ('OH HAI SEXISM' or whatever it was) is going to be flagged very quickly by lots of people. Especially if there have been lots of sexism in tech threads recently, especially if there have been threads about the same company recently. By "boring" people don't mean "not interesting to me"[1] they mean "unlikely to generate useful or interesting discussion". People tend to know exactly what they think about some subjects (Abortion, circumcision, "middle east problem", etc.). Thus, discussions about those subjects tend to have people talking at each other, not listening to each other, not sharing information. There are many places to have those discussions. It's nice that HN is free of that kind of discussion.