> It's certainly under no obligation to promote right-wing propaganda and hate.
It's certainly under no obligation to promote any propaganda or hate. That's what makes the site great. The HN crowd is not your average layman - it's largely well read and educated people. Why not let them decide what is propaganda and what's not (as opposed to some arbitrary authority deciding this)?
That is at best a very naïve take. This is a public forum, not some secret society of like-minded intelligentsia.
something tells me the team here is anything but arbitrary. i can assure you, keeping a community this healthy at this scale is pretty incredible.
what you’re suggesting is to raise the noise and for the users to wade through noise hunting for signal.
what rises to the top here is so much better than any of the noisy sites. on those sites, by the time you find a signal, the information is usually amateur-hour tier. to use an idiom i heard yesterday, sites with little moderation are like searching for a hymen in a whorehouse.
People need to stop thinking this. There's no filter in front of the HN sign up. The community here is the same as the community anywhere else on the internet. We aren't special
this alone makes them more ‘well read’ than the average X user, especially considering all the conspiracy theories (and groupthink) floating around on the site.
It's "more well read about those subjects" :)
I came to HN because it seemed to be a place of free dialogue.
It most certainly is the exact mixture of people as you’d find elsewhere. The only difference is they’ll (we’ll) foam at the mouth over something vaguely tangential to tech vs. some other topic.
Here's a recent example of the type of take you might find here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113312