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Please moderate your techie site and reduce the amount of politics and preaching, or else you will wind up like Reddit, digg, and of course, the once famous Leo
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Please moderate your techie site and reduce the amount of politics and preaching, or else you will wind up like Reddit, digg, and of course, the once famous Leo Laporte, who is now exclusively preaching his politics to his 100 faithful followers.
- dang 1y agoThis question has a lot of history on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869. If you'll take a bit of time to learn about how we approach it, you'll find that the site is pretty stable: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... It does fluctuate—we can't be immune from macro trends (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20immune%20macro%20trend&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). But the principles we apply have been the same for many years, and if you step far enough back, the amount of politics is pretty consistent.