I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!

(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

@hikari I haven't gone hunting for it, but given the sources of the chatter, I think someone did at least a "tech should be apolitical" on one of the Asahi linux channels.

I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!

(replying to I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!)

@hikari Apparently Alyssa's post briefly made HN's front page and that went about as well as you'd expect.

Saagar Jha

(replying to I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!)
@steve @hikari I would be shocked if it got more than 5 comments before being flagged

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @steve the site tolerates such a wide spectrum of political discussion: from white liberalism to white fascism and everything in between!

Saagar Jha

(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari @steve Honestly politics should be banned from Hacker News, not because it doesn’t belong near technology, but on account of the site being unable to moderate those discussions
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Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @steve politics should be banned from HN because currently the ban only extends to certain relatively left-ish topics and the ban is enforced by the userbase :/

I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @hikari are you implying that an overwhelmingly straight cis male middle-class reactionary userbase who believe themselves to be the put-upon minority may not be the most accurate judges of the boundaries of acceptable political discourse?

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
@hikari @steve If you design your site around longtime users flagging awful content things don’t work if they end up being the best at deciding which discussions they never want to enter