I wrote the thing I meant to write about the week-long politics moratorium on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13127366 …
haha no. I mean in terms of your original point. Shrill comments have a structural advantage, and those topics draw them in.
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I think the political threads are way worse; JS trolls at least tend to know a little JS.
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You don’t need to know that React is a Javascript framework to troll a political thread. You don’t need to know anything.
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that's fair. I guess I'm just saying that the problem is more broad and I stay off HN because of the broader problem.
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I agree about the broader problem too.
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thanks. I wonder if there's something we can do about it.
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