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I agree not only with regards to Edward Snowden but generally worthless articles about people who happen to be in the tech news lately. E.g. "Kim Dotcom braids his hair!", "Julian Assange orders Cherry Coke instead of regular!", "Elon Musk buys three rare white leopards!" It's tedious. Unfortunately what makes good click bait also makes good upvote bait and most people will just fall for it unthinkingly. And looking…
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Most of these stories themselves are at best tangentially related to the larger issue. Upvoting them or reading a story about Edward Snowden's favorite brand of chicken pot pie is not doing anything to fight for civil liberties, though it will give views to garbage web sites like Business Insider and its ilk.
Oh give up. "Edward Snowden's favorite brand of chicken pot pie" "Kim Dotcom braids his hair!" "Julian Assange orders Cherry Coke instead of regular!" "Elon Musk buys three rare white leopards!" Do you really like to argue by ridiculing others this much? There hasn't been a story even resembling anything like this, people have actually upvoted things they found interesting. More links means more people are writing ab…
This guy stabbed his own cause in the back by going public, doing press interviews, and doing whatever else he could to make the story all about him, and for some inexplicable reason y'all want to shove the knife in deeper and twist.
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You can disagree with his statement about PRISM, and that doesn't really have much to do with his original point. He wasn't saying don't post thoughtful op-eds about PRISM (and if he was I think he'd get no support here at all), he's saying enough with the tabloid like articles about the people at the center of controversies, which have nothing to do with the larger issue.
Let's not restrict it to people relevant to controversies. Let's stop all the tabloid articles and blogspam.
This is a story that people are upvoting because they find it interesting. It is also a very active one, where new interesting information is coming up all the time. And "Edward Snowden's fate is grim" so we should stop caring about him? I'm glad to not see this story go away, and I am actually understanding the issues better because of the articles about it here. Let the community decide what should be on here.
And how can community decide on highly controversial topic if only upvotes are counted?
We end up with divisive topics that only half of us is interested in on the first page. The other half might completely hate it, even!
If it bothers you, take the bigrss feed here and put it through an rss filter to remove the articles you do not like? I did that for Steve Jobs. I personally want to read every new element about the Snowden effect but I realize not everyone else does.
If it bothers you, take the bigrss feed here and put it through an rss filter to remove the articles you do not like? This doesn't solve the bigger problem, namely, that posting countless stories on Snowden is really killing HN. Seriously, we're one step away from having stories on what Snowden had for lunch on his flight to Moscow on the front page. I don't buy the "Let the community decide what should be on the fro…
If the guidelines state that you shouldn't complain in comments about submissions, then certainly you shouldn't post whole Ask HN submissions. And the irony of this comment hasn't escaped me.
As a non-US HN'er, I totally agree with this. I come here for tech news, not US politics. Some HNer has set up a nice filter: http://diff.biz/?remove=%28nsa|prism|privacy|crunch|snowden|... It filters away all stories containing keywords nsa, prism, etc.
I'm a huge privacy fan, really. But after months of news about it, I'm quite through with it. We all know Gmail gets wiretapped, we all know how to encrypt data, and whether you do something about it is up to you. End of story if you ask me.
Politics too to an extent. It's important to know what's going on in the world. But I don't find it important to know where Snowden is going by the minute.
You can install "Selectivity for HN" Greasemonkey script to hide those stories. It reduced my front page to just about ~10 relevant posts. It might help to flag those posts too, but if you try it they will most likely just remove flag privilege for you, since this Snowden thing seems to be a new fetish here on HN, similar to the time Steve Jobs died when you couldn't read anything else. Btw, from the HN guide: "Off-T…
I believe there are ways to both accommodate extensive discussion on the breaking / on-going news as well as keeping space for the core HN topics (hacking, CS, entrepreneurship, etc).