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Ask HN: HN Blocks Sites Like Fox News?
I have noticed that I very rarely see Fox News on HN. I commonly see sites with similar middle brow journalism quality from the left on here, especially The Guardian and NY Times (which used to be high brow but has fallen way off).
HN used to be mostly libertarian entrepreneurs, but the far left has made major inroads. I guess it could be users just not submitting or upvoting Fox News and right wing websites?
@Dang are there any algorithmic blocks against sites like Fox News or is it just user upvoting behavior?
- bigfatkitten 10mo agoHN posters generally prefer reporting that contains at least a kernel of truth. Not even Fox News says that you should believe anything they produce. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
- cindyllm 10mo ago[dead]
- ofalkaed 10mo agoEven vouching for the response to you is not enough to bring it back from the dead so I can not reply to it, so I reply to you. Fox news is no more to blame than CNN or NPR, they all just play the game and try to get on the front page. Blaming Fox News or NPR or HN is ridiculous.
- magicalhippo 10mo agoClearly it's not blocked[1]. As a Norwegian, which stories do you think Fox News report better on than other sources? As in, which stories do you think people should submit Fox News as a source for rather than some other source? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=foxnews.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=foxnews.com
- ofalkaed 10mo agoAt least 90% of HN flags any submission that is remotely political. It is rare that the the cable news networks are not at least remotely political. Most of the internet is dedicated to politics and consumerism, let us have our corner.
- bigyabai 10mo agoIt's a blatant Christian Zionist rag.
- ofalkaed 10mo agoI downvote you but I don't flag OP, despite feeling the same about both of your posts. OP is at the very least trying to understand, even if they feel it is unfair, they leave the space for difference of opinion, not being right.
- bigyabai 10mo agoI accept your downvote. All I ask, if you want to determine who is acting in good faith here, is that you click through OP's submission history: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=silexia https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=silexia
- ofalkaed 10mo agoWe are not supposed to use past posting as proof on HN, we are supposed to respond to what was said. One of those unwritten rules which most get. Do you really believe that I can't find something in all of your posting history that does not conflict with what you say here? Edit: Your editing your original post proves my point.
- bigyabai 10mo agoI perfectly well trust that you can. In this instance, there is ample proof that the poster does not adhere to HN's submission guidelines. If that's an uncouth judgement, please exercise the downvote.
- ofalkaed 10mo agoWhy did you edit your post? It had some worth, but you edited into something of no worth, limp partisan bullshit.
- DetectDefect 10mo agoThese baiting questions and resulting wasteful discussions are just uninteresting. Submissions should be qualified on their own merit instead of needlessly litigating the source of their publication. I say "should" instead of "must" because this is not a public forum, but a private one, and as such, the rules of moderation are not at our discretion. My advice is to accept them and participate productively within the norms, or start your own community which is devoid of any perceived bias, in your own vision of what is reasonable.
- bigyabai 10mo ago> Submissions should be qualified on their own merit instead of needlessly litigating the source They are: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=foxnews.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=foxnews.com
- eucryphia 10mo agoYou even have to ask this?
- lemontheme 10mo agoAs a European, I always get a giggle from American conservatives describing CNN as ‘far left’. There’s so much more spectrum to explore. Like, even your Democrats are our center-right.