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Hacker news guidelines “ Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.” Specifically calling out some personal gri
by mint2 3y ago
Hacker news guidelines “ Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.”
Specifically calling out some personal gripe about the “left” definitely falls under this admonishment.
- falserum 3y ago[dead]
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoAs a person who generally identifies as being on the US left, I took it as a factual use of the term, not a personal gripe or ideological battle. To the extent I can even think of people on the "right" doing the equivalent with indigenous cultures, it's in a completely different manner.
- mint2 3y agoI’m not even getting into the accuracy or lack of accuracy of the statement. Due to the numbers of viewers, if even a fraction of people start posting whatever gripe about left/right that comes to their mind after each comment like here, then this place will be unbearable. Hence the guideline admonishing against that.
- arp242 3y ago"I don't like these viewpoints somewhat commonly held by this group" is not "political or ideological battle" in and of itself.
- mint2 3y agoWell when put like that, sounds like a terrible conversation piece for socials events, particularly when an 1/3 to 2/3rds belong to the group being griped about. Especially when the gripee is seemingly not even part of that group. It’s like standing in a group talking and then going: “hey this topic reminds me about how a third of you people, which I’m not one of, do this and this bad thing, isn’t that annoying?! Haha you people”