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Why do people flag anything related to ice coverage? Ice are literal nazis cracking down on dissent, dont support the administration. You gain nothing for fight
by marysminefnuf 9mo ago
Why do people flag anything related to ice coverage? Ice are literal nazis cracking down on dissent, dont support the administration. You gain nothing for fighting their battles online.
- willmarch 9mo agoIt’s absolutely an effort to suppress criticism and/or try to deny the now undeniable by some HN users
- timeon 9mo ago[flagged]
- SauntSolaire 9mo agoBecause the people who comment in these threads tend to be mind-killed by politics, and it serves very little purpose to have a threads full of such opinions.
- willmarch 9mo agoSo basically you’re trying to suppress opinions you don’t like or agree with, relevant or not?
- SauntSolaire 9mo agoHas nothing to do with me agreeing with them or not, they just tend to be low quality/value in general - more noise than signal on all sides.
- willmarch 9mo agoI’ve been able to have some quality discussions around these issues but I get your perspective. I hope at some point soon, we as a country, can go back to viewing politics as a rational and civil discussion of differences in policy approaches rather than as a tribal team sport or as an excuse to push extremist positions.
- mdhb 9mo ago[flagged]
- SauntSolaire 9mo agoThere are plenty of websites intended for political discussions. HN, rather explicitly, is not one of them. I could write about how political discussions reduce the quality (and go against the purpose) of this site, but thankfully Dang has already covered that, so I'll just link to him instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818 > That’s an incredibly gross personality trait. On a final note, I'll add that responses like these are a great example of the general degradation of discussion norms that occurs in these types of threads.
- computerthings 9mo ago[dead]
- mdhb 9mo ago[flagged]
- SauntSolaire 9mo agoIt's not my "weird fucking content policing", it's literally the stated guidelines for this site -- reiterated repeatedly by the lead moderator, as I linked. Since you're in such disagreement with the rules of this site, maybe, rather than trying to change them, you should take your comments elsewhere.
- willmarch 9mo agoYou’re misrepresenting what the content policy says (making it appear to favor your position more strongly than it does), as I believe a political article that engages intellectual curiosity should not be flagged according to the spirit of HN (which is subjective, of course, and leaves a lot of room for biased implementations even when someone believes they are not being biased). It’s not an easy problem to solve and is hard to balance fairly, so I think your painting of the content policy as being crystal clear is a misrepresentation that isn’t properly taking into account the subjectivity of what is viewed as political and what counts as intellectually stimulating to different HN users (as it seems if something is “interesting” then that tends to override the “political” in many instances on the home page, and is entirely subjective).
- chairmansteve 9mo ago"Because the people who comment in these threads tend to be mind-killed by politics". You are one of the people who replied dude...
- SauntSolaire 9mo agoNot to argue politics, notably.
- daxuak 9mo agoI'm flagging because early on these obvious alerting news got flagged within seconds, while the equally political happenings, the less immigration-related thus somehow more relevant and appropriate ones, were tolerated. I have since decided that this site does not deserve to know.
- willmarch 9mo agoInteresting perspective. Thanks for sharing.
- stefan_ 9mo agoThe people running YC and their entire social circle voted for this. Half of them are still riding the grift. Now they are all practicing for their Persilschein.
- fzeroracer 9mo agoI think I can understand why someone from Europe or wherever else might flag these stories because they're not interested (...ignoring the whole Greenland elephant in the room for a second), but given that Scott Adams got a massive post on here despite the thread being mostly political shitflinging for obvious reasons it's really lowering my overall opinion of your average HN user. I'm increasingly inclined to say they need to show some information on who's flagging and why, especially if there's a consistent pattern and time of who is doing said flagging. Some of the posts break thru the wave of people seemingly flagging these stories immediately like the Palantir stories but otherwise your best bet is having show dead on and looking in /Active instead.
- computerthings 9mo ago[dead]
- alecco 9mo agoI can only speak for myself. If the news article has anything to do with tech and things "interesting to hackers", I upvote. For example, the article about Palantir and ICE yesterday [1]. But articles like this one have nothing interesting to me. There are plenty of other places to discuss this like BlueSky, X, reddit, Facebook, etc. I beg you to please spare this last interesting forum. Also it pisses me off how nobody talks about certain very relevant elephants in the room on these discussions. And it's more like venting and coping. Nobody will change their minds. Nothing will be done. Nothing is learned. Note: I am not American. [1] "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633378 622 points and 886 comments
- willmarch 9mo agoFair position. What are the relevant elephants in the room in your opinion, just out of genuine curiosity?
- chairmansteve 9mo ago"But articles like this one have nothing interesting to me". When a post is of no interest to me, I ignore it. I don't read all the comments and reply to the 20th one.
- UncleMeat 9mo ago[flagged]
- giardini 9mo ago[flagged]