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It’s funny how fast these kinda discussions dissapear from the front page, anyone know if there are any statistics on this?

by dukodk 1y ago

ath3nd 1y ago
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- tdeck 1y ago
  The wildest one was the Tom Alexandrovich story. That guy literally committed sex crimes while in town for a tech conference and was let off - he works in our field, but it immediately got buried.
- krageon 1y ago
  Palantir is openly named after a device of fantasy Satan. I don't think we need to wonder how evil they're being, it's always worse that you think they're being. That's what they're for.
- giraffe_lady 1y ago
  The moderator dang has actually responded to several comments about their editorial stance re israel-palestine. I don't have time to find them but I've engaged with him personally on this several times over the last couple years. Basically it boils down to he thinks we have talked about it enough and it annoys him how upset people are about it. And ultimately he considers admiring the technology used in war machines (and terrorism like the pager attack) to be clearly within the editorial remit of HN but that discussing their effects on the people they are used on is borderline so they police it more vigorously.
  - ath3nd 1y ago
    Ah, they are annoyed that people are upset about the genocide and keep talking about it. Very interesting. Well, that's their right, of course, annoyed that people are not closing their eyes to blatant human rights violations and genocide. I will keep calling it out for what it is: Israel is a genocider state, until it's stopped.
    - Schmerika 1y ago
      YSK that people get banned here for calling Israel out. It will be claimed that it's over something else, to maintain plausible deniability. Or that you were starting a flame war. I'm just saying: this is one of HN's most protected third-rail topics, so I'd advise you to have a backup account and a VPN handy if you want to keep stating the obvious and standing up for the voiceless.
bebna 1y ago
Simple, they are basically spam for this platform. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit [...] 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.
- alkyon 1y ago
  Conservatives are champions of free speech unless it concerns Palestine and Israel. In this case any vague rule is good to supress it and impose full censorship.
  - 93po 1y ago
    it's a tale as old as time for people to believe the things they're in support of get censored while the things they dislike are over-represented. HN is genuinely relatively divisive on basically any issue, as humans we tend to be a bit blind to these things though.
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cooloo 1y ago
It's not funny when HN become the next social network with bullshit arguments.
- 93po 1y ago
  its some of that but the ratio is much better than anywhere else i know of

It’s funny how fast these kinda discussions dissapear from the front page, anyone know if there are any statistics on this?

by dukodk 1y ago

It’s funny how fast these kinda discussions dissapear from the front page, anyone know if there are any statistics on this?

ath3nd 1y ago

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tdeck 1y ago
The wildest one was the Tom Alexandrovich story. That guy literally committed sex crimes while in town for a tech conference and was let off - he works in our field, but it immediately got buried.
krageon 1y ago
Palantir is openly named after a device of fantasy Satan. I don't think we need to wonder how evil they're being, it's always worse that you think they're being. That's what they're for.
giraffe_lady 1y ago
The moderator dang has actually responded to several comments about their editorial stance re israel-palestine. I don't have time to find them but I've engaged with him personally on this several times over the last couple years. Basically it boils down to he thinks we have talked about it enough and it annoys him how upset people are about it. And ultimately he considers admiring the technology used in war machines (and terrorism like the pager attack) to be clearly within the editorial remit of HN but that discussing their effects on the people they are used on is borderline so they police it more vigorously.
- ath3nd 1y ago
  Ah, they are annoyed that people are upset about the genocide and keep talking about it. Very interesting. Well, that's their right, of course, annoyed that people are not closing their eyes to blatant human rights violations and genocide. I will keep calling it out for what it is: Israel is a genocider state, until it's stopped.
  - Schmerika 1y ago
    YSK that people get banned here for calling Israel out. It will be claimed that it's over something else, to maintain plausible deniability. Or that you were starting a flame war. I'm just saying: this is one of HN's most protected third-rail topics, so I'd advise you to have a backup account and a VPN handy if you want to keep stating the obvious and standing up for the voiceless.

bebna 1y ago

Simple, they are basically spam for this platform. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit [...] 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.

alkyon 1y ago
Conservatives are champions of free speech unless it concerns Palestine and Israel. In this case any vague rule is good to supress it and impose full censorship.
- 93po 1y ago
  it's a tale as old as time for people to believe the things they're in support of get censored while the things they dislike are over-represented. HN is genuinely relatively divisive on basically any issue, as humans we tend to be a bit blind to these things though.
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cooloo 1y ago

It's not funny when HN become the next social network with bullshit arguments.

93po 1y ago
its some of that but the ratio is much better than anywhere else i know of