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You're so unprepared for the emerging political reality in the US it almost looks intentional.
by giraffe_lady 1y ago
You're so unprepared for the emerging political reality in the US it almost looks intentional.
- tomhow 1y agoThe rest of the internet can cover this stuff just fine. We don't need to let eternally attention-hungry politicians be the reason to drag HN away from its purpose for existing.
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- giraffe_lady 1y agoWhat would be the reason to drag HN away from its purpose for existing? If the answer is "nothing" it's a ready-made propaganda outfit.
- tomhow 1y agoHN's reason for existing is to discuss "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", and "anything that good hackers would find interesting", and things that involve "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon". It's right there at the start of the guidelines and it's always what we use to judge what content is on topic or off topic. That's been constant from the beginning. It excludes "daily political rage bait" for the important reason that most of the rest of the internet is dominated by that stuff and we think it's important that there's one corner of the internet that isn't quite so dominated by it.
- giraffe_lady 1y agoI stand by my first comment here. You are embarrassingly, dangerously unprepared for what is required of you.
- tomhow 1y agoWe routinely host huge discussions about major political developments, some of which spend all day on the front page then continue to smoulder on for days. We're not avoiding discussion of important topics. We're preserving this place as somewhere that can be a better place to discuss important topics when they emerge. But that means being consistent in our criteria for what qualifies and what doesn't.
- giraffe_lady 1y ago[flagged]
- cyclicall 1y ago[dead]