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Comment by tomrod | Hacker News Reader

It is a shame this was flagged. This is a conversation that is needed. Culling all political discussion is not what today's hackers need.

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Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but the title is flamebait, so that's a start.

Usually there are clues in the comments as to why users may have flagged a post. I found these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835090

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835033

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835027

> Culling all political discussion is not what today's hackers need.

Not all political discussion is culled from HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

The problem is that when an article (and title) are more fulminating than substantive, we get comments like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835006

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42834977

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835227

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835420

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835490

That's not the thoughtful, curious conversation that HN is supposed to be for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Most political articles point people toward indignation and away from curiosity—but we can maybe at least not push ourselves off a cliff.

Use hckrnews.com to read the HN front page and check "show dead" in settings. This will let you see threads that were active but flagged off the front page.

Or look at https://news.ycombinator.com/active, linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/lists, linked from the footer of every HN page.

I came here to write this will get flagged, and I was already too late. We need a new "HackerNews"

Check out the hackernews sub on rdrama.net

I did check it out just now.

During signup, one must check a box stating "I swear lifelong allegiance to the state of Israel"??

You should make an account, you can use a temp address. And that's a joke, to keep out people that take things too seriously.

An edgy forum like kiwifarms, apparently. The Red Scare podcast has an instance of the same software and has this checkbox text instead: "By checking this box you agree that you are not, have never been, and will never be fat, physically or spiritually."

We are decidedly not like kiwifarms. rdrama is about having fun, not being mad on the internet.

rdrama also shouldn't require accounts to read if they want engagement. Lurkers are 10X, don't block them. That's X's biggest technical issue currently, discounting the weird strategies around the wokeism-strawman and supporting apparent malefactors.

It's a temporary thing. But there's no harm in making an account, I don't think you even need to verify your email.

It's not surprising when you consider HN is full of temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires

No one should be ashamed of being rich.

What grates me is that these people have ginormous amounts of FU money and don’t exercise it. They just horde it and be more sociopathic.

Parent is referring to the Steinbeck quote.

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

Also, please "Omit internet tropes."

Both from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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