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Hello spoiledtechie, I wanted to mention why I downvoted. I am worried someone will misunderstand if I follow usual protocol and skip commenting. The reason I
by Danieru 14y ago
Hello spoiledtechie,
I wanted to mention why I downvoted. I am worried someone will misunderstand if I follow usual protocol and skip commenting.
The reason I downvoted your comment is because I think it crosses the "interesting to hackers" and "politics" greyline. As you know politics permeates society and avoiding all politics is just not possible. I understand that your comment was in good faith and not in the least bit antagonizing. I am conservative as well and it is always nice to see politicians doing the right thing. Double so if a group has often ignored their founding principles.
The core reason for my objection is that we must be active in the fight against conversation degradation. To this end I hope we will avoid politics even if the article itself is political.
- danilocampos 14y ago> To this end I hope we will avoid politics even if the article itself is political. So if the article is about politics, specifically, and how that involves tech, what's to be done? A comment thread about kung pao chicken? That's not useful.
- kefka 14y agoConsidering someone got thrown in the federal pokey for creating a script that increments the number in a URL, and then saved that output to a file..... Yeah, I think we DO need to have that discussion on politics with regards to Hacker News.
- asveikau 14y ago> we must be active in the fight against conversation degradation. Pardon me for using slightly political terms, but I feel this phrasing has weird totalitarian undertones.