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This post has more engagement than any other post on the front page. It seems hackernews has been overrun by a certain crowd whom this death seems newsworthy
by akkad33 1y ago
This post has more engagement than any other post on the front page. It seems hackernews has been overrun by a certain crowd whom this death seems newsworthy
- dang 1y agoNo, these are mostly regular users who post about eBPF or Haskell under other circumstances. You can check that yourself by looking at commenting histories, which are public. If the situation were as you say, we could deal with it by banning the "overrunners" who are not here to use HN as intended. But it's not that—it's that the community is divided in much the ways that society at large is divided, and that divisive topics generate strong reactions.