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Please keep the politics out of HN. Edit: Referring to some of the comments in this thread, not the article.
by grimtrigger 13y ago
Please keep the politics out of HN.
Edit: Referring to some of the comments in this thread, not the article.
- CapitalistCartr 13y agoYou've been around here long enough to know HN is full of political issues and has been for years.
- mrchucklepants 13y agoI fail to see how review and discussion of statistical information equates to politics. Facts are not political.
- davidw 13y agoYou really can't see that? Do you think there's the odd chance the ensuing discussion might - just might - deviate from the discussion of some numbers? My inclination is that we will see yet another reenactment of a famous internet flame war.
- mrchucklepants 13y agoIt is possible, and likely will happen. However, the OP is completely relevant.
- bjterry 13y agoReal facts aren't political, and all facts taken together aren't political. But statistics are often biased or flat out incorrect because of political ends, and the selective dissemination of statistics is political.
- Prophasi 13y agoI'd argue this is up to the folks commenting rather than the OP, which is a link to some polling that produced a bunch of data points. It can be strictly analytical without blowing up into petty arguments. Not that it will.
- btipling 13y agoI am totally with you on this although meta-discussions are usually not allowed. I hope pg and moderators find that there is more value in building a community that talks more about technology and startups than the growing group of single minded group of prolific downvote button clickers who make others want to stop participating.
- kalleboo 13y agoAgreed. There aren't any comments on this article that I couldn't have read on reddit. Topics like this will always generate a lot of comments and discussion since it's very easy to have an opinion on it (vs more technical topics).