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What about topics that are important and relevant to HN but invoke a polarised opinion on HN? My concerns can be summarized into a single question - If HN had
by dman 12y ago
What about topics that are important and relevant to HN but invoke a polarised opinion on HN?
My concerns can be summarized into a single question - If HN had existed historically with the rules as they exist currently, would Georg Cantor have thrived in it?
- brudgers 12y agoI flag bad threads. To me if a thread is producing bad behavior then it's bad. Most of the threads that fall into the category of important and bad are posted for discussion elsewhere.
- dang 12y ago> If HN had existed historically with the rules as they exist currently, would Georg Cantor have thrived in it? I doubt it. Unconventional ideas that are orders of magnitude less radical than Cantor's get reduced to convention and dismissed all the time on HN. It's dismaying. But it is what human beings do, and especially what human beings in groups do. HN can't change that by proclaiming rules. Maybe we can mitigate it a little, such as by asking people to avoid gratuitous negativity.