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I also see a ton of this here on HN as the political topics have ramped up. Not enough people are flagging those when it aligns with their bias. It's even less
by sublinear 6mo ago
I also see a ton of this here on HN as the political topics have ramped up.
Not enough people are flagging those when it aligns with their bias. It's even less likely to get flagged when it's a double whammy of politics and AI. Loosely being about AI should not give it a free pass.
- Permit 6mo agoI haven't seen this. Can you give some examples?
- weird-eye-issue 6mo agoOh you definitely have seen it
- bombcar 6mo agoI rarely downvote anything; but I’ll unholster the downvote for obvious political spam when it agrees with me. If we don’t police our side nobody will.
- mschuster91 6mo ago> If we don’t police our side nobody will. The problem is, the other side definitely does not play by the rules and has no intention to. Why should we "police our side" and weaken ourselves? The endless purity testing on the progressive side of politics is a large part of why the far-right is so damn powerful worldwide.
- bombcar 6mo agoIt's not purity testing insofar as "you must support X if you support Y" but "we don't spam" purity testing. And yes, nobody is going to do it, all politicians understand and support them spamming.
- armchairhacker 6mo agoIronically purity testing is something we should police. We police ourselves because it makes us look better to moderates and defectors as the other side fails to fulfill its promises. If the other side doesn’t police themselves, it’s their loss, because they’ll alienate fence-sitters and (mispredicting due to groupthink) fail even harder.