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Flagged? This is only Voldemort-adjacent.

by josefritzishere 9mo ago

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-0 9mo ago
sus, indeed
embedding-shape 9mo ago
Lots of people making money during this era of oligarchs, and the more open censorship keeps happening and being discussed, the faster it all might fall down. Hence, people try to suppress it.
Sohcahtoa82 9mo ago
Yeah, I feel like this is a case where we should be able to flag the flaggers.
- oliwarner 9mo ago
  Or at least show them a version of the site that hides political posts to save their techbro sensibilities. I get why some politics is toxic, but this is so indefensible, it isn't likely to start a flamewar.
  - xphos 9mo ago
    You can use the Active HN link it shows flagged stuff
    - oliwarner 9mo ago
      I can, but it's a little backwards that a handful of antis can flag political posts upvoted by dozens of other HN users, with the rarest of interventions by mods. It would make more sense to just allow users who don't like politics to not see politics. They get to keep their heads in the sand, we get to stay miserable, and the world will keep spinning.
- szatkus 9mo ago
  Maybe there should be a limit how many items a user can flag?
  - lysace 9mo ago
    By now it should be obvious that YC does not want anything critical of Drumpf on any of their front pages.
    - lysace 8mo ago
      To clarify: yes, I claim that YC is willfully enabling whatever Hitler-esque shit this part of history ends up being.
colpabar 9mo ago
[flagged]
- toomanyrichies 9mo ago
  I mean, if you want to quote the guidelines [1]: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "Most" leaves some wiggle room here, and I'd say CBS's censoring of Colbert post-acquisition is evidence of an "interesting new phenomenon". You might not find the story interesting, but that just means you're not the target audience. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - bunderbunder 9mo ago
    There is also an FCC angle that is relevant in that it concerns broadcast communications. And a “Streisand Effect” aspect that is perennially interesting to many hackers. And, relatedly, an angle concerning how newer media (YouTube) alters the communication landscape.

Flagged? This is only Voldemort-adjacent.

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-0 9mo ago

sus, indeed

embedding-shape 9mo ago

Lots of people making money during this era of oligarchs, and the more open censorship keeps happening and being discussed, the faster it all might fall down. Hence, people try to suppress it.

Sohcahtoa82 9mo ago

Yeah, I feel like this is a case where we should be able to flag the flaggers.

oliwarner 9mo ago
Or at least show them a version of the site that hides political posts to save their techbro sensibilities. I get why some politics is toxic, but this is so indefensible, it isn't likely to start a flamewar.
- xphos 9mo ago
  You can use the Active HN link it shows flagged stuff
  - oliwarner 9mo ago
    I can, but it's a little backwards that a handful of antis can flag political posts upvoted by dozens of other HN users, with the rarest of interventions by mods. It would make more sense to just allow users who don't like politics to not see politics. They get to keep their heads in the sand, we get to stay miserable, and the world will keep spinning.
szatkus 9mo ago
Maybe there should be a limit how many items a user can flag?
- lysace 9mo ago
  By now it should be obvious that YC does not want anything critical of Drumpf on any of their front pages.
  - lysace 8mo ago
    To clarify: yes, I claim that YC is willfully enabling whatever Hitler-esque shit this part of history ends up being.

colpabar 9mo ago

[flagged]

toomanyrichies 9mo ago
I mean, if you want to quote the guidelines [1]: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "Most" leaves some wiggle room here, and I'd say CBS's censoring of Colbert post-acquisition is evidence of an "interesting new phenomenon". You might not find the story interesting, but that just means you're not the target audience. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bunderbunder 9mo ago
  There is also an FCC angle that is relevant in that it concerns broadcast communications. And a “Streisand Effect” aspect that is perennially interesting to many hackers. And, relatedly, an angle concerning how newer media (YouTube) alters the communication landscape.