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Comment by vaksel | Hacker News Reader

if you want cs/hacker + politics, go to reddit. I personally think the way the site is no is perfect, sure some offtopic stuff goes to the front page, but almost all of the content is cs/hacker/startup only

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Thank you for your suggestion.. but I like the simplistic and minimal nature of HN. Further, I think what really gets to me more is the submits requiring a subscription.

Reddit is cs/hacker + socialist politics + flamewars.

Also, I find that comment to be very akin to "if you don't like something about America, move to another country."

The USA has inclusiveness in its charter. A social news site is free to be as inclusive or exclusive as it cares to be. If the mix of topics on HN is not to someone's liking, then moving elsewhere is a valid suggestion. For me, it wouldn't be a good one, though.

The USA has inclusiveness in its charter. A social news site is free to be as inclusive or exclusive as it cares to be.

Sure, but that attitude still makes you an asshole.

Really? What is name calling supposed to make you?

Would it help if I explained that by 'asshole,' I meant 'anti-social jerk,' and was applying it to the flippancy of a 'love it or leave it attitude,' which, irrespective of any legality thereof, still makes one an asshole?

The problem is that its a slippery slope, as you relax the rules on the content, it'll get worse and worse. So before long HH will be another reddit clone with 1/10th of stories on the front page being even remotely relevant, and the rest is nothing but regurgitated blog spam

I don't know if it'd ever get as bad as reddit... PG's a smart guy, but he needs to give us a sign of how he's going to deal with the problem. A shoe, say, or a gourd...

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