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Yes, I do. I can watch coverage of the administration on any of dozens of major news outlets. There are very few places to discuss programming languages, fram
by _mlbt 1y ago
Yes, I do. I can watch coverage of the administration on any of dozens of major news outlets. There are very few places to discuss programming languages, frameworks, and data stores.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoCan you not click hide on posts you’re not interested in? This enables you to enjoy the content you’re after without diminishing those interested in these interesting, pressing topics (which we don’t have to argue specifically). It’s also faster and more efficient than writing a comment.
- _mlbt 1y agoThat is what I've been doing...flagging and hiding all the political posts, but it gets tiresome when it's so rampant on here.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoHiding is fine, but flagging I argue is not, as you're controlling what others see vs just yourself (I only flag egregious or spam content, for example, and would vouch comments that violently disagree with me if I could). Certainly, focus on the content that interests you, that is why we are all here, but these are material political and human rights issues to many, and the posts are likely to continue until this administration changes over (or operates in a way that is perhaps not so newsworthy). I hope this subthread has been helpful, and if not, my apologies for the cycle consumption. Perhaps a call for an LLM labeler to categorize posts to enable auto hiding by topic or interest with a browser extension or authenticated against your HN account. Shiny tech for some, human systems for others (with some overlap of course). I won't say we can all get along, but I will say I believe we can share the same firehose in a reasonable manner and self sort accordingly.
- _mlbt 1y agoIt is a violation of the rules so I flag these posts to assist the mods with policing the content of this site. The amount of political content posted since Trump won the election has already greatly reduced my enjoyment of this site, and I'm sure that I'm not alone in this. As I said earlier, there are innumerable other places to discuss politics and such discussions really should be held somewhere else. The political discussions here aren't even high quality. They always devolve into a liberal circle-jerk as all arguments that run counter to that viewpoint are downvoted and flagged out of existence immediately. I greatly fear that this site will continue down the path of becoming yet another leftist politics echo chamber. I can't imagine anything more dull. I wouldn't even mind if HN added some way to tag such posts and allow people like me to opt out of them.
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- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoI can't even see this on the front page. Are you browsing /active or /newest ?
- _mlbt 1y agoIt was on the front page when I posted this. Sorry, this is just a straw that broke the camel's back moment for me. I really do try not to complain about things like this. I just hate seeing another website I used to enjoy being ruined by constant off topic political postings. Reddit is already nearly ruined by it with the exception of a few niche subs. I hope HN can avoid a similar fate.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoI think we are currently in interesting times, so there's more political posts than usual.
- cosmicgadget 1y ago[flagged]
- _mlbt 1y agoGuilty as charged, I occasionally let myself get drawn into these political discussions against my better judgement.