It highly depends on location. Not everybody lives in the US, I find it odd that Americans rarely post their country, and just assume the location of others.
that's an assumption. There's likely no stats on it, but I wouldn't be suprised if there's a large userbase outside the US (I'm not there, I know lots of users also not being in the US).
> If you run a site in India for Indians, for example, would you find it odd if users assumed everyone lived in India unless otherwise stated?
That's not really comparable. We are talking about one of the most well-known tech exchanges worldwide - so it is also of interest to many people outside the US. If silicon valley would be in India it wouldn't be odd if the site would be hosted there, and if international users would visit it.
I'm not saying that non-americans don't use the site. I'm not saying they're not welcome. Both of those statements are obviously false.
Speculative outrage that defies common sense is a big component of the troubles liberal culture is experiencing today. It is always possible to take everything personally, so demonstrating that you can take things personally is profoundly uninteresting. And worse it distracts from the best thing about discussion: all the cool ideas we can share with each other.
Looks like Californians take the top spot, followed by Germans and Canadians.
No, ‘it’s’ not odd, you find it odd. Your opinion/feeling is not fact, despite you labelling it as such.
Interestingly the vote count went up during American off peak and dropped substantially during the American day. I don’t care about vote count, but I think it’s relevant here.
Where should you draw the line? Surely not at "more Americans than non-Americans". In your postulated example, I suspect the number of people in India would well exceed 50%.
I think the simple proposition is this: this site has a sufficiently high non-US audience that it can reasonably be expected you specify your post only concerns the US.
Indeed, it seems you did come to that conclusion, but still commented about it being unclear?
He has to put in his 2 cents about a whole class of people behaving oddly. Indeed, the whole post seems to be a setup to complain about Americans being America centric.
> "Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house in the US?
I can't help but think it is simply implicit American exceptionalism. It's an assumption, commonly made by Americans, that on the web we assume everything refers to the US unless otherwise specified. I'm not suggesting any bad faith on OP's part, it's an unconscious bias.