Much needed
Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
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Re: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
#22shrug, I haven't seen any submissions or threads I'd consider political for over a week.
Re: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
#23I've been hesitant to go into new and just start flagging all the terrible stories because I've read about people that lost the ability to flag. So I only flag on relatively rare occasion. Does such an overuse mechanism actually exist?
Yeah, I lost it once for about.. a year? Maybe more? It just came back one day.
Re: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
#24This is welcome and refreshing.
Re: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
#25I wasn't aware there is a problem.
The threads which dang moderates are a good chronicle of political discussions gone bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang
Re: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
#26Politics was definitely a problem right after the election, but it seems to have calmed down a lot and nakedly political stories don't seem to make it to the front page anymore.
I would hope this purge would not include stories related to privacy legislation, as I think the topic is very relevant to the community.
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#27I disagree but those are the rules.
Re: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
#28I'm a little skeptical of this.... What's the ulterior motive here? We all know SamA was very anti-trump, is this an alternative method to keep the new US political regime from affecting YC? It's almost a weird form of discussion censorship. Whose idea was this?
> We all know SamA was very anti-trump Who is SamA?
He's the president of ycombinator.
Re: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
#29As an experiment, I love the idea!
Personally, I've found it hard to escape US politics on many of the sites I frequent. The comments/discussion often end up relating the topic to the last US election in some manner - and an unproductive conversation follows.
Just my experience, but again - love the idea of running an experiment here.
Re: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
#30Tribalism is so toxic. I'm all for this. But for flagging purposes what's the boundary between a political/non-political story?
EDIT: @dang in another comment: Let me clarify. The main concern here is pure politics: the conflicts around party, ideology, nation, race, and religion that get people hot and turn into flamewars on the internet. We're not so concerned about stories on other things that happen to have political aspects—like, say, software patents.