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Not a Drill

18 points by yodon 8mo ago

gardnr 8mo ago
[flagged]
- yodon 8mo ago
  >Why would you share this here? These are clearly important times, regardless of your politics. The HN guidelines define on topic as "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting." Up-votes are a measure of what is found interesting. Posting the topic and receiving no up-votes (the "posted but not interesting to good hackers" case) means no presence on the front page, which means no one is impacted, aka the cost is low. Alternatively, pre-emptively censoring something that might have been of interest (the "not posted but interesting to good hackers" case) means no discussion about a topic people would/do find interesting, aka the opportunity cost is high. The site self-corrects, so we shouldn't live in fear of topics.
  - gardnr 8mo ago
    That same document says: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics and > If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
    - yodon 8mo ago
      > "Most" There are news stories that are of particular interest and relevance to the type of system designer that makes up much of the HN audience. The community should be allowed to discuss them intelligently and politely.
      - gardnr 8mo ago
        "opinion piece" != "news story"
    - cwillu 8mo ago
      “[…] Most […]” “[…] probably […]”
- skippityosborne 8mo ago
  Yeah, the overthrow of American democracy is not remotely interesting or worthy of discussion.
- cwillu 8mo ago
  Your comment is a complaint that the submission is inappropriate, why would you write it here? “Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.” --https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - gardnr 8mo ago
    Thanks for the info. I just flagged it. My main complaint is that it is an opinion piece. I actually agree with the content of the opinion piece. I'm also really tired of politics and HN has been a relatively healthy place for me, mentally. I'd like to keep it that way.
Sabinus 8mo ago
https://archive.is/wkLXg https://archive.is/wkLXg

Not a Drill

18 points by yodon 8mo ago

gardnr 8mo ago

[flagged]

yodon 8mo ago
>Why would you share this here? These are clearly important times, regardless of your politics. The HN guidelines define on topic as "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting." Up-votes are a measure of what is found interesting. Posting the topic and receiving no up-votes (the "posted but not interesting to good hackers" case) means no presence on the front page, which means no one is impacted, aka the cost is low. Alternatively, pre-emptively censoring something that might have been of interest (the "not posted but interesting to good hackers" case) means no discussion about a topic people would/do find interesting, aka the opportunity cost is high. The site self-corrects, so we shouldn't live in fear of topics.
- gardnr 8mo ago
  That same document says: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics and > If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
  - yodon 8mo ago
    > "Most" There are news stories that are of particular interest and relevance to the type of system designer that makes up much of the HN audience. The community should be allowed to discuss them intelligently and politely.
    - gardnr 8mo ago
      "opinion piece" != "news story"
  - cwillu 8mo ago
    “[…] Most […]” “[…] probably […]”
skippityosborne 8mo ago
Yeah, the overthrow of American democracy is not remotely interesting or worthy of discussion.
cwillu 8mo ago
Your comment is a complaint that the submission is inappropriate, why would you write it here? “Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.” --https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gardnr 8mo ago
  Thanks for the info. I just flagged it. My main complaint is that it is an opinion piece. I actually agree with the content of the opinion piece. I'm also really tired of politics and HN has been a relatively healthy place for me, mentally. I'd like to keep it that way.

Sabinus 8mo ago

https://archive.is/wkLXg https://archive.is/wkLXg