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Why is this flagged? Even if the comment section isn't up to standards, the article should be relevant to everybody.
by torlok 2y ago
Why is this flagged? Even if the comment section isn't up to standards, the article should be relevant to everybody.
- cluckindan 2y ago[flagged]
- hagbard_c 2y ago[flagged]
- watwut 2y agoDemocrats never done anything comparable. So, no. There is no symmetry here.
- FireBeyond 2y agoLet's not act like you were somehow forced to read the comments to a thread titled "DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes" and whine that it really needs a politics tag so you don't accidentally stumble across it. What were you expecting, after wading half way through the comments?
- hagbard_c 2y agoI was expecting for these political posts to be treated the same as other political posts, i.e. shut down due to them being off-topic for this site. Alternatively I'd expect the 'no politics' rule (yes, rule) to be either restated as 'Bay Area politics welcome, other politics off-topic' (/s) or 'politics welcome, tag title [politics]' (like PDF's are tagged) or 'politics welcome, thread will be tagged' or something along those lines. What's good for the goose is good for the gander after all.
- dang 2y agoI've been posting a lot about this lately. Here are some recent posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 If you (or anyone) will read some of those and follow some of the links in them, you should get answers to all the common questions about this. If, after that, you have a question that hasn't been answered, I'd be happy to take a crack at it. (Plus I'd like to know what it is! It's been a while since I've heard a new one.)
- anigbrowl 2y agoI'd be glad if you'd do something about the influx of trolls, like maybe requiring a few submissions before allowing comments. Right now it's easy to create an account and then just post slurs on 30 or 40 threads before getting shadow banned (and those of us who have showdead turned on still get to see it).
- alecco 2y ago> I'd be glad if you'd do something about the influx of trolls Mate, with all due respect, but the first few pages of your recent comments are mostly in US politics threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=anigbrowl https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=anigbrowl I understand you must be upset. But a bunch of us don't care anymore about another country's internal stuff. It's not even worth the schadenfreude. For us it's been a clown show for a very, very long time. Remember weapons of mass destruction? Remember when one side raised the alarm on electronic voting and then 15 years later it was the other side, and then 4 years later back to the first side? Remember the massive bailouts, the Tea Party, and Occupy Wall Street? Remember Epstein? Borderline fascist pro-American exceptionalism Hollywood? Then ultra-woke self hating Hollywood? It's like a bad soap opera where the audience is numb to any further plot twist. Whatever happens, happens. Good luck. But please let us have this last forum not tainted with US politics. I'm sure there's plenty of welcoming threads on reddit, Facebook, X/BlueSky, and even YouTube comments.
- anigbrowl 2y agoMate, with all due respect, but the first few pages of your recent comments are mostly in US politics threads. Simply not true.
- dang 2y agoWho posted slurs on 30 or 40 threads before getting banned? If you're talking about the account you mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143257, that account was banned from the day they started posting, and not one of their comments was ever publicly visible. Yes, 'showdead' means you're signing up to see, among other things, the worst that the internet has to offer. I explained that in my other reply to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143611.
- mlnj 2y ago[flagged]
- nathanaldensr 2y agoEither that or, you know, we want to keep Hacker News about tech. Lots of us don't want /r/politics here.
- watwut 2y agoThat is who all the pro homeschool posts stayed. Or pro Musk posts.
- mlnj 2y agoHacker News is not just about tech. There's plenty of discussion about philosophy, science, economics, health, hobbies and trivia. I doubt we would have much to talk about here if Elon was not deeply involved in this storyline. There's plenty of government stuff that goes on without much to comment on that is Hacker News material.
- JoshTko 2y agoHN isn't just about tech, it's also about hacking. And this article is definitely about hacking.
- ModernMech 2y agoHacker News isn't about tech isn't about hackers. Right there in the name. Other systems besides tech systems can be hacked. What's happening with DOGE can be viewed as a hack of one of the biggest systems of all time. And it's ongoing. This article is chronicling part of that hack, and I can't believe the tech minds at HN aren't more interested in it.
- computerthings 2y agothen why is it always the same handful of people saying that
- dang 2y agoPosts about this from yesterday, with lots of additional links, if anyone wants to read about how we approach politics on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134386
- belter 2y ago[flagged]