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Why can't we instead just talk about how bad this article is? Is it necessary to hide everything that is disagreeable?

criley2 11y ago
> Is it necessary to hide everything that is disagreeable? It's disingenuous for you to imply that we want Divisive Political news hidden for it's disagreeableness. Why cannot we disagree with it based on its relevancy to "Hackers" and "News" regarding hacking? This isn't the forum to discuss Global Finance. It's not GloFi News, it's Hacker News. What's so wrong with staying on topic? Better yet: someone (me!) should write a Hacker News for politics and global finance, just as design-related topics have moved to other link aggregators.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
  >Why cannot we disagree with it based on its relevancy to "Hackers" and "News" regarding hacking? Of course you can, that usually starts another chain of yes-it-is/no-it-isn't but you surely can; it's not what GP did though.
  - smcl 11y ago
    I am just tiring of seeing politics articles laden with rhetoric whose sole purpose is to provoke. They are not constructive, insightful or at this point even interesting. You suggest that there is some merit in a "let's discuss how bad the article is" discussion, but I think that's a wee bit of a stretch. The article disappeared fairly quickly anyway so it looks like I wasn't alone in thinking this way. Another reason I posted the comment instead of downvoting was that I can't downvote stories yet (I've only ~1200 karma), after seeing countless versions of these articles pop up I thought I'd add my $0.02 via a comment.
    - fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
      I think that provocative articles and comments often inspire really good retorts/comments as opposed to more well-balanced articles, at least sometimes. Yeah, the blatant inflammatory baiting rhetoric sucks and I am happy to downvote those comments, no matter what their alignment is. I hope that's enough to discourage it. I do see flare-ups of partisan hackery from time to time, but I think batting it back down with comment voting and the occasional polite reminder works well. >The article disappeared fairly quickly anyway So it's not much of a problem then. >I can't downvote stories yet (I've only ~1200 karma) If there is an amount of karma that allows you to downvote sumbissions, it's more than 6743. I can flag them, is that what you mean?
      - smcl 11y ago
        Ah so maybe there isn't any downvote functionality for the articles themselves

> Is it necessary to hide everything that is disagreeable? It's disingenuous for you to imply that we want Divisive Political news hidden for it's disagreeableness. Why cannot we disagree with it based on its relevancy to "Hackers" and "News" regarding hacking? This isn't the forum to discuss Global Finance. It's not GloFi News, it's Hacker News. What's so wrong with staying on topic? Better yet: someone (me!) should write a Hacker News for politics and global finance, just as design-related topics have moved to other link aggregators.

fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
>Why cannot we disagree with it based on its relevancy to "Hackers" and "News" regarding hacking? Of course you can, that usually starts another chain of yes-it-is/no-it-isn't but you surely can; it's not what GP did though.
- smcl 11y ago
  I am just tiring of seeing politics articles laden with rhetoric whose sole purpose is to provoke. They are not constructive, insightful or at this point even interesting. You suggest that there is some merit in a "let's discuss how bad the article is" discussion, but I think that's a wee bit of a stretch. The article disappeared fairly quickly anyway so it looks like I wasn't alone in thinking this way. Another reason I posted the comment instead of downvoting was that I can't downvote stories yet (I've only ~1200 karma), after seeing countless versions of these articles pop up I thought I'd add my $0.02 via a comment.
  - fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
    I think that provocative articles and comments often inspire really good retorts/comments as opposed to more well-balanced articles, at least sometimes. Yeah, the blatant inflammatory baiting rhetoric sucks and I am happy to downvote those comments, no matter what their alignment is. I hope that's enough to discourage it. I do see flare-ups of partisan hackery from time to time, but I think batting it back down with comment voting and the occasional polite reminder works well. >The article disappeared fairly quickly anyway So it's not much of a problem then. >I can't downvote stories yet (I've only ~1200 karma) If there is an amount of karma that allows you to downvote sumbissions, it's more than 6743. I can flag them, is that what you mean?
    - smcl 11y ago
      Ah so maybe there isn't any downvote functionality for the articles themselves