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Post by apta »

CydeWeys wrote: post #95
cuddlecake wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thinking that HN would be better than is a bit too hopeful of an assumption. Everyone is prone to bad / ignorant behavior. HN users being no exception.

I disagree. Some communities are actually much better than others on a variety of issues. I mistakenly thought that this was an issue HN would have been better and more mature on too, but I'm learning I was wrong about that. But compare your average 8chan poster to your average HN poster and you'll see that for sure not all online communities are the same.

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Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by cuddlecake »

apta wrote: post #121
CydeWeys wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. Some communities are actually much better than others on a variety of issues. I mistakenly thought that this was an issue HN would have been better and more mature on too, but I'm learning I was wrong about that. But compare your average 8chan poster to your average HN poster and you'll see that for sure not all online communities are the same.

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Just for dummy me, can you make a statement that is "critical of homosexuality" but not homophobic?

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by apta »

cuddlecake wrote: post #122
apta wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Just for dummy me, can you make a statement that is "critical of homosexuality" but not homophobic?

For example, that homosexual men have much higher incidents of HIV because of their practices.

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by cuddlecake »

apta wrote: post #123
cuddlecake wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just for dummy me, can you make a statement that is "critical of homosexuality" but not homophobic?

For example, that homosexual men have much higher incidents of HIV because of their practices.

And what are the practices you are speaking of?

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by cuddlecake »

apta wrote: post #123
cuddlecake wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just for dummy me, can you make a statement that is "critical of homosexuality" but not homophobic?

For example, that homosexual men have much higher incidents of HIV because of their practices.

So you are critical of homosexual men having sex? Is that correct?

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by CydeWeys »

apta wrote: post #125
cuddlecake wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what are the practices you are speaking of?

Homosexual sex obviously.

What about monogamous gay men then? There are plenty of them. You should be more supportive of them than a straight single person who has more than one sexual partner. But you aren't, for some reason. You're specifically railing against gay people rather than unsafe promiscuity. Interesting ...

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by cpach »

IanDrake wrote: post #50
rimliu wrote: post #33

How about .straight and .bisexual?

Why not, we should all be able to announce our sexual preferences through our email address. But why stop there? Might as well make things clear with sub-domains. Bob@white.muslim.palistinian.overfourty.bald.fat.gay

Hm... By choosing the right gTLD one could fit a whole poem in an e-mail address.

Example: ah.what.a.world.of.love.was@her.feet (Keats)

That could take the whole concept of vanity domains to a whole new level!

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by apta »

CydeWeys wrote: post #127
apta wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Homosexual sex obviously.

What about monogamous gay men then? There are plenty of them. You should be more supportive of them than a straight single person who has more than one sexual partner. But you aren't, for some reason. You're specifically railing against gay people rather than unsafe promiscuity. Interesting ...

That's a weird argument telling me who I should and shouldn't support. Not sure what you're getting to.

Re: .gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public

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Post by dang »

Simulacra wrote: post #120
crumbshot wrote: post #90

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The quality of discussion on HN is generally quite low these days. But it's even worse on topics that touch on issues of social justice or relate to persecuted minority groups. Too many commenters here appear to be sorely lacking in empathy.

HN is intended for technology news and discussions. Allowing social justice, and identity politics to take over has diluted its usefulness. Empathy has nothing to do with it, it's more like commenters appear frustrated over the constant non-technology issues.

People have been saying things like this for nearly as long as HN has existed. Lots of examples at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.

HN's approach hasn't changed. If you want to read about what that approach is, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... has lots of explanations.

The particular themes that show up have changed, of course, but that's because of macro trends in society at large. HN can't expect to be immune from those.

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