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I am led to believe that a large number of europeans hangs out around here(especially in morning hours when US is asleep) that wants to discuss european (geo)po
by seydor 9mo ago
I am led to believe that a large number of europeans hangs out around here(especially in morning hours when US is asleep) that wants to discuss european (geo)political issues and i wonder why this is not happening in other forums.
- chaostheory 9mo agoIs that a bad thing? I’d rather not HN become an echo chamber even if I don’t agree with all the posts
- CalRobert 9mo agoI’m one of them. But what fora are you thinking of?
- snowpid 9mo ago1.) r/europe discussed this news as well 2.) There is lack of European social media to discuss it there :P 3.) Actually this meeting mentioned in the article was big on German news. Every news outlet mentioned it, long articles etc. so it was discussed at least in Germany
- tokai 9mo agoI don't know, Europe related things get a lot of US comments here. All the classics about lacking freedoms, tech sector, ease of founding, etc.
- SideburnsOfDoom 9mo agohacker news is an coder / sysadmin / tech worker/ IT person's forum. You are correct that such people exist in the EU and UK and indeed, other parts of the world too, and that they frequent this forum. At the appropriate local times of day. And when they are here, they discuss a range of issues inside and outside of tech. Including geo-political issues. The more motivated will also find more narrowly focused forums, but general forums remain popular. In general.
- pjc50 9mo agoIronically, HN gets political discussion because the moderation is good enough that it's not a complete waste of time. Most subreddits have been assigned one side or the other by their moderators, for example.
- inglor_cz 9mo agoYes, moderation here is better than elsewhere and the usual bad actors cannot do more than "drive-by downvotes", which are annoying, but nowhere near as disruptive.
- GJim 9mo ago> "drive-by downvotes" A meta-moderation system (allowing moderators up/down votes to be randomly audited) would help stop this happening. Those who remember the old Slashdot meta-moderation system will know how this works.... it did a decent enough job.
- JumpCrisscross 9mo agoThe voting seems to work a lot better than the flagging mechanism, for what it’s worth. It’s rare that the top-rated comment is nonsense, or that a bottom-rated comment for more than a few minutes isn’t close to a waste of time.
- groestl 9mo agoI also discuss on a local newspaper forum as well, which is pretty popular, but the crowd here tends to be more insightful :)
- bee_rider 9mo agoIt is hard to completely separate out technical from political content in some contexts. Power generation, military hardware, tech company regulation… these have sort of obvious technical and political aspects.