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Re: Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws

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Post by lawlorino »

1hakr wrote: post #60
reitzensteinm wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, move fast and break things works great with novelty pens, not so much with smoke detectors. OP, if you're not going to take the quality of information very seriously, you should probably pivot to something a bit less hazardous.

Thanks for the suggestion. I built it as there was no such tool to look up any countries gay travel laws.

That doesn't address their criticism though. Many people here have pointed out these mistakes on your site. Do you not see that it is actively dangerous to present wrong information like this?

Re: Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws

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Post by _-___________-_ »

JshWright wrote: post #51
davedx wrote: post #9

Great website, really nice UX. Small bug with some of the data -- spot the "undefined"s: "United States has a LGBT+ travel rank of 53 with a total gay travel score of 57. United States is part of Americas with main city at Washington, D.C.. Its Developed country with a population of 324M people. The main currency is undefined. The languages spoken are English. the United States of America is the formal name of undefi…

I bet you could ask 100 people what the "main city" in the US was and none of them would say D.C. In general the U.S. seems varied enough that a single score isn't really meaningful... There's a pretty big difference between Seattle and rural Mississippi.

Maybe "main city" is a mistranslation of "capital"?

Re: Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws

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Post by netsharc »

1hakr wrote: post #33
hardtoswallow wrote: post #29

As a gay man, you're safer and better off in Singapore than you would be in most parts of Europe and the top portion of the list. Yet Singapore is down at 92. Interpret this however you want, but the list flawed. Laws don't mean shit unless they're enforced and that goes both ways. "Bad" laws not enforced is better than good laws not enforced.

Thanks for the feedback mate. I got this data from Spartacus website. Do you think it's not accurate? What about all the other countries? https://spartacus.gayguide.travel/blog/spartacus-gay-travel-...

Fucking hell, your defense against all the criticism is that "Oh it's data from some 3rd party!", which is more or less saying "not my fault!".

As another has said, this is less than useless, this is dangerous. And if it's the source that's wrong, then the source is also dangerous, but you're spreading dangerously wrong information. I hope no LGBT+ person actually depends on your site, because it might get them fucking killed.

Besides, having the info be country-wide is not granular enough. A gay traveller would probably feel very safe in San Francisco but not feel very safe in some little town deep in Alabama.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws

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Post by learnstats2 »

1hakr wrote: post #60
reitzensteinm wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, move fast and break things works great with novelty pens, not so much with smoke detectors. OP, if you're not going to take the quality of information very seriously, you should probably pivot to something a bit less hazardous.

Thanks for the suggestion. I built it as there was no such tool to look up any countries gay travel laws.

Here ya go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_terr...

Re: Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws

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Post by cultus »

JordanFarmer wrote: post #16
herbstein wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't think there's any meaningful level of tourists not traveling somewhere because they're scared of too many LGBT+ community members. LGBT+ members need/want a site like this because they want to be safe while traveling and exploring the world. Bigoted fools don't have any real risk going somewhere with LGBT+ rights.

It's not about risk. It's about the type of place they want to spend time at or live in.

Scaring away bigots is a good thing, not a bad thing. Your blatant homophobia has no place here or anywhere.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws

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Post by lightgreen »

maxmalysh wrote: post #23

This map is terribly wrong for some parts of the ex-USSR and Asia. Coming out as a gay person in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan or Azerbaijan is dangerous. Dangerous as in "there is a high chance you'll be beaten up and a mild chance of being kidnapped and killed". From the other side, Russia is not that bad. Not bad means "you can see gay people kissing on the streets without repercussions" (in the European part of the coun…

> you can see gay people kissing on the streets without repercussions

I never say gay people kissing (or even holding hands) even in Moscow.

Maybe Russia is not as bad as Syria, but that statement is not true.

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