I wrote the thing I meant to write about the week-long politics moratorium on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13127366 …
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Replying to @tqbf
I'm one of the people who stopped reading HN much and this characteristic applies to technical posts too (on controversial topics)pic.twitter.com/ok2C8ZI2Aj
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Replying to @wycats
That’s true. But political threads are worse, because they disproportionately attract the people who want to write those comments.
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Replying to @tqbf
political threads seem similar to me to "threads about JS frameworks"
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Replying to @tqbf
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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Replying to @wycats
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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Replying to @tqbf
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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thanks. I wonder if there's something we can do about it.
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