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There's also politically correct censorship going on, amazingly. This morning I submitted this: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-english-s
by occam 17y ago
There's also politically correct censorship going on, amazingly. This morning I submitted this: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-english-speaking.html http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-englis... . It was dead on arrival, marked [dead] immediately, presumably because that blogger is "divisive" and "racially insensitive". Please read that and judge for yourself if it is interesting.
- jibiki 17y agoI would think that about 90% of Sailer's articles are too trollish for HN. (Consider the title of his book about Obama: "America's Half-Blood Prince".) This article, however, made a very salient point, which I have heard from other people as well, particularly in regards to the conflict in South Ossetia. (Basically, he says that the American media is too sympathetic to English speakers around the world.)
- occam 17y agoCan you point to one of his articles that is trollish, instead of just unPC?
- jibiki 17y agoThere are a number of articles with this sort of tone: http://www.vdare.com/sailer/051016_football.htm http://www.vdare.com/sailer/051016_football.htm "Or, possibly, the reason that teams with a higher number of white reserves have been winning more games is because whites are better team players about sitting on the bench without complaining about not starting. Perhaps white back-ups are less likely than black back-ups to poison the atmosphere and ruin the team spirit." How could you possibly argue a point like that? It's pure trolling. Anyways, I don't know if he's trolling a whole 90% of the time, but certainly < 10% of his articles are appropriate HN material.
- occam 17y agohttp://paulgraham.com/say.html http://paulgraham.com/say.html
- occam 17y agoYes, and thank you for reading the article. It is an interesting and important point.
- allenbrunson 17y agoi'd say it's a lot more likely it was killed because of the political slant. very few political articles are allowed to live around here, because they lead to divisive and unproductive arguments.
- occam 17y agoWhat is the political slant of that article?
- tokenadult 17y agoFrom the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Stories about politics have a very high threshold to clear to be on HN, because there are many other places to discuss politics online, and few others to discuss the core HN topics.
- occam 17y agoYes. But the article is question doesn't seem to be about politics: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-english-speaking.html http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-englis...
- tokenadult 17y agoI suppose reasonable minds can differ, but it doesn't delight my mind. I should be deeply interested in such an article, as an American who reads a foreign language (Chinese) and has lived abroad, but maybe precisely because I have that background I've seen better.
- occam 17y agoOf course you don't have to vote it up. But why was it killed?
- Confusion 17y agoWe told you it's not good for HN by flagging it. We're disagreeing with you, because we believe it doesn't belong here. Now you come here and presume we disagree with the contents of the article and suggest we are morally inferior, because we have unethical reasons for flagging the article. You're not just wrong once, but twice.
- occam 17y agoNo, the article was auto-killed. The blogger is probably blacklisted for being racially insensitive or something. Yet here is an example of one of his posts that did well on HN and generated much interesting commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280544
- ErrantX 17y agoIt wasnt auto-killed. Very few domains are on the blacklist AFAIK.
- occam 17y agoI just tried submitting another article from his blog and again it was [dead] by the time I was redirected to the 'new' page, i.e. a few milliseconds. Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=686436 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=686436 Try posting something from his site yourself, like this one: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/illuminating-map.html http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/illuminating-map.html