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I remember the experiment a while ago with the ban on political topics on HN. What this site more urgently needs is a ban on any discussion of sex or dating. I
by foldr 2y ago
I remember the experiment a while ago with the ban on political topics on HN.
What this site more urgently needs is a ban on any discussion of sex or dating. It’s always pretty sick-making.
- wegfawefgawefg 2y agoI do not see this as a political topic. I do not see this as a men versus women topic. I see it as a discussion of value, utility versus aesthetics. I do think people care too much for aesthetics at the expense of their own utility. I do think that condition is aptly called shallowness.
- foldr 2y agoI didn't say that it was a political topic. It's a lot closer to being that than to being what you think it is, though.
- wegfawefgawefg 2y agoSemantics
- foldr 2y agoNo, I really just didn't say that it was a political topic.
- wegfawefgawefg 2y agoAh I see. I misunderstood. Why do you think posts that are of that type should be banned?
- pjc50 2y agoThere's a de facto ban on discussion of anything even vaguely feminist such as pay differentials, it always gets flagged off the front page immediately. There's very, very few women posters. Occasionally people post "population decline??" articles, which also suffer from lack of women participants, and deserve to get flagged off.