The case for Emilia Bassano as Shakespeare
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The case for Emilia Bassano as Shakespeare
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#2More importantly, how did Shakespeare feel about bathrooms for the transgender?
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#3Might be!
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#4More importantly, how did Shakespeare feel about bathrooms for the transgender?
Can you please not post such dross to HN?
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
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#6All: yes it's a provocative title and the topic has been overcooked over the years, but on HN what matters is the article. This article is interesting and perfectly on topic for HN. Most of us have never heard of Emilia Bassano. There's a great Borges quote. And so on.
Comments are welcome if your curiosity is engaged. But if you're triggered, and want to vent, that's not curiosity. Let it go and move to something you do feel curious about.
Accounts that flag too many on-topic articles like this one eventually get their flagging privileges removed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: by the way, here's another article arguing against the current one, which also gratifies intellectual curiosity: https://spectator.us/shakespeare-woman-atlantic/.
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#7I still subscribe to the Lazarus Long theory of Shakespeare.
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#8All: yes it's a provocative title and the topic has been overcooked over the years, but on HN what matters is the article. This article is interesting and perfectly on topic for HN. Most of us have never heard of Emilia Bassano. There's a great Borges quote. And so on. Comments are welcome if your curiosity is engaged. But if you're triggered, and want to vent, that's not curiosity. Let it go and move to something yo…
Flagging an obviously on-topic article
Obviously on topic? Really? You can dictate it is on topic because you have power to, but it is petty to threaten people for flagging when it is clearly not obvious it is on topic.
Re: The case for Emilia Bassano as Shakespeare
#9All: yes it's a provocative title and the topic has been overcooked over the years, but on HN what matters is the article. This article is interesting and perfectly on topic for HN. Most of us have never heard of Emilia Bassano. There's a great Borges quote. And so on. Comments are welcome if your curiosity is engaged. But if you're triggered, and want to vent, that's not curiosity. Let it go and move to something yo…
> This article is interesting and perfectly on topic for HN. Most of us have never heard of Emilia Bassano. There's a great Borges quote. And so on.
I'm genuinely curious what makes a post "on topic" for HN. Are each of these sufficient criteria?
- Being about someone "we've never heard of". - Having a great quote by a famous person.
Re: The case for Emilia Bassano as Shakespeare
#10All: yes it's a provocative title and the topic has been overcooked over the years, but on HN what matters is the article. This article is interesting and perfectly on topic for HN. Most of us have never heard of Emilia Bassano. There's a great Borges quote. And so on. Comments are welcome if your curiosity is engaged. But if you're triggered, and want to vent, that's not curiosity. Let it go and move to something yo…
Flagging an obviously on-topic article Obviously on topic? Really? You can dictate it is on topic because you have power to, but it is petty to threaten people for flagging when it is clearly not obvious it is on topic.
Ok, you've convinced me that "obviously" was an overstatement. I'll take that word out and tone down that sentence.
What's on topic is what gratifies intellectual curiosity. It may not gratify everyone's, but that's true of every submission.
A single errant flag isn't going to get anyone penalized, but if users show a pattern of flagging intellectually substantive articles on uncommon or unexpected topics (especially non-technical ones, such as about history or the arts), we take away their flagging rights. Those are some of the best and most underrepresented article types we see. We need more of them on HN, not less.