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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by jghn »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #22
fake-name wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think HN is left ? Ha. HN is at best center-right.

Try posting anything right-wing, like government crime stats of black vs white people. You will get banned.

They did say HN is center-right.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by johnny22 »

bpodgursky wrote: post #18
michaelteter wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... Very far left. How do you measure "far left"? Do you mean they are concerned with all people, and they don't suffer illusions of "I built my fortune on my own" (ignoring all the socialist infrastructure which enabled their success)?

Let's just say that if you got all your news from reddit, you would be very surprised that conservatives anywhere ever won an election.

that really depends on which subreddits you're in!

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by ofalkaed »

ofalkaed wrote: post #2

Oddly enough I had been considering making a similar thread but asking for something akin to HN but with less non-tech news. Perhaps the question that both I and OP are asking is, does anyone know of a site that stays on topic? >Thoughts? If this doesn’t exist, would people be interested in it being created, and does anyone think it has a chance of taking off There is absolutely a market for it but it will eventually…

To those that upvoted me, I appreciate the sentiment but I should have been downvoted into oblivion. Upvotes are not likes, they are curation and moderation; upvote comments which produce good discussion even if that comment is terrible and low effort and downvote those comments you love or agree with but will never produce any worthwhile discussion. Sometimes it it hurts to do but it must be done if we want to maintain quality.

With that said, I have had fun tonight, thanks for humoring me but my previous post really should not be top post. If you feel bad about downvoting it or unupvoting it for what ever reason than just upvote this one and downvote my previous, no harm, nor foul, but lets not have my previous post be top post in the thread and lets make sure top post in every thread is good solid, on topic discussion.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by dlivingston »

michaelteter wrote: post #13
bufferoverflow wrote: post #5

Reddit, but you have to carefully select your subs. And it's not very useful for politics, because it's very one-sided, very far left, and they ban you for any transgressions that don't fit the narrative.

... Very far left. How do you measure "far left"? Do you mean they are concerned with all people, and they don't suffer illusions of "I built my fortune on my own" (ignoring all the socialist infrastructure which enabled their success)?

Not "very far left" as in socialist / communist. "Very far left" as in "a large and vocal majority of liberals and progressives" which, when combined with the general Reddit tendency to groupthink and mock/attack opinions that aren't the subreddit status quo, make it a very uncomfortable place to be. (And I'm on the left!)

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by lwansbrough »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #22
fake-name wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think HN is left ? Ha. HN is at best center-right.

Try posting anything right-wing, like government crime stats of black vs white people. You will get banned.

They love to pull up the crime stats but never the traffic stop stats or police-initiated contact stats or use of force stats. Wonder why.
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