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Unless there is some kind of relationship to tech, political posts are generally removed from this site. You shouldn’t interpret this sites focus as the people

Unless there is some kind of relationship to tech, political posts are generally removed from this site. You shouldn’t interpret this sites focus as the people that post here not thinking there are more important things.

LexiMax 1y ago
I'm familiar with the voting patterns of HN users. For this reason I tend to browse HN using the https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active frontpage because it contains the flagged topics that certain users of this site attempt to hide, while also preserving the vast majority of interesting tech-related topics.
- Thorrez 1y ago
  It's not about voting patterns. It's about the rules of HN: >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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - LexiMax 1y ago
    I am also aware of what the rules say, as well as how they tend to be applied in practice. The latter is why I don't find arguments that fall back on the former persuasive.
Teever 1y ago
There's no guarantee that posts related to tech that are also related to political stuff will avoid being flagged. Even when there is a relationship with tech political posts are generally removed if they don't align with a zeitgeist of modern America that seems to chose to fall in line instead of resisting unseemly actions by the new government.
- Thorrez 1y ago
  The vast majority of stuff on HN I've seen about Trump and DOGE has been negative. You seem to be saying HN will promote pro-Trump stuff and delete anti-Trump stuff. That's simply false. I can give a ton of highly upvoted anti-Trump posts.

LexiMax 1y ago

I'm familiar with the voting patterns of HN users. For this reason I tend to browse HN using the https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active frontpage because it contains the flagged topics that certain users of this site attempt to hide, while also preserving the vast majority of interesting tech-related topics.

Thorrez 1y ago
It's not about voting patterns. It's about the rules of HN: >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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- LexiMax 1y ago
  I am also aware of what the rules say, as well as how they tend to be applied in practice. The latter is why I don't find arguments that fall back on the former persuasive.

Teever 1y ago

There's no guarantee that posts related to tech that are also related to political stuff will avoid being flagged. Even when there is a relationship with tech political posts are generally removed if they don't align with a zeitgeist of modern America that seems to chose to fall in line instead of resisting unseemly actions by the new government.

Thorrez 1y ago
The vast majority of stuff on HN I've seen about Trump and DOGE has been negative. You seem to be saying HN will promote pro-Trump stuff and delete anti-Trump stuff. That's simply false. I can give a ton of highly upvoted anti-Trump posts.