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Yeah, it's a Trump-related political outrage, or it's an AI thing. I feel anecdotally like the AI-related things are even more prevalent, but would love to see

Yeah, it's a Trump-related political outrage, or it's an AI thing. I feel anecdotally like the AI-related things are even more prevalent, but would love to see some data on it. The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle. It's heady times, anyway, that's for sure.

-__---____-ZXyw 1y ago
Actually, I should say, using https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active to see flagged stuff too is great. Not sure if you see everything, but I definitely am more interested in a less curated frontpage. I don't find ignoring headlines I'm not interested in to be such a major affront to my sensibilities.
bigstrat2003 1y ago
> The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle. Speaking personally, I flag the political posts and not the AI posts because the political posts always turn into flame wars. AI posts do not, so I leave them be (even though I don't personally like them).
- -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago
  Hmmm. Is there a statement of HN policy somewhere about that? Or is this just a thing you decided to do on your own accord? No judgment, just curious. I presume you've reflected on the idea that one person's flame war is another person's gentle exchange of opinion. I can see what you're saying though, and I have seen discussions where I've thought "oook, don't really understand what these people think they're achieving", but I wouldn't say I've seen anything horrendous. I mean, individual horrific comments get quickly flagged to death. Why bother flagging the whole topic? Why not simply not investigate those threads?
  - satvikpendem 1y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html mentions not to use HN for political or ideological battle.
stevage 1y ago
>but would love to see some data on it. There was a great post by someone who did some analysis on HN content, just yesterday. Can't remember keywords to find it though.

-__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

Actually, I should say, using https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active to see flagged stuff too is great. Not sure if you see everything, but I definitely am more interested in a less curated frontpage. I don't find ignoring headlines I'm not interested in to be such a major affront to my sensibilities.

bigstrat2003 1y ago

> The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle. Speaking personally, I flag the political posts and not the AI posts because the political posts always turn into flame wars. AI posts do not, so I leave them be (even though I don't personally like them).

-__---____-ZXyw 1y ago
Hmmm. Is there a statement of HN policy somewhere about that? Or is this just a thing you decided to do on your own accord? No judgment, just curious. I presume you've reflected on the idea that one person's flame war is another person's gentle exchange of opinion. I can see what you're saying though, and I have seen discussions where I've thought "oook, don't really understand what these people think they're achieving", but I wouldn't say I've seen anything horrendous. I mean, individual horrific comments get quickly flagged to death. Why bother flagging the whole topic? Why not simply not investigate those threads?
- satvikpendem 1y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html mentions not to use HN for political or ideological battle.

stevage 1y ago

>but would love to see some data on it. There was a great post by someone who did some analysis on HN content, just yesterday. Can't remember keywords to find it though.