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It is interesting that this site uses “avoiding drama” as an excuse to enforce a very strict and ideological political position of cheerleading whoever exercise

It is interesting that this site uses “avoiding drama” as an excuse to enforce a very strict and ideological political position of cheerleading whoever exercises the most political juice on any given day. It is also funny that when pressed on it dang insists that this practice of explicit unconditional endorsement of the current administration is both unavoidable and emergent, not something intentionally and methodically foisted upon the users here. The censorship is good and necessary, there are some things that folks that come to HN just should not read about or discuss. This line of excuses falls completely apart, immediately, when you consider how trivial it would be for this site —made for and by software engineers— to simply have a subforum where this sort of “flagged” political content gets moved to rather than removed. The choice to memory hole anything that remotely stands the chance of being an interesting discussion that doesn’t cheerlead the current administration is very much intentional.

SSLy 2y ago
hckrnews luckily ignores the flaggers and shows this and all related posts
khazhoux 2y ago
> when you consider how trivial it would be for this site —made for and by software engineers— to simply have a subforum... That would be quite a cause for celebration. The first-ever subforum here in 17 years! But regardless, we also didn't have random Biden (pro- or anti-) posts the last 4 years, nor Trump before that, nor Obama. FAQ: > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- addandsubtract 2y ago
  HN has several "subforums" already; Show, Ask, Jobs.

SSLy 2y ago

hckrnews luckily ignores the flaggers and shows this and all related posts

khazhoux 2y ago

> when you consider how trivial it would be for this site —made for and by software engineers— to simply have a subforum... That would be quite a cause for celebration. The first-ever subforum here in 17 years! But regardless, we also didn't have random Biden (pro- or anti-) posts the last 4 years, nor Trump before that, nor Obama. FAQ: > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

addandsubtract 2y ago
HN has several "subforums" already; Show, Ask, Jobs.