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Comment by miki123211

6 months ago

I believe this is against HN's values.

HN allows, and has always allowed, links to paywalled sources, sources with geographic restrictions that refuse to display the content for some readers, and won't modify a posts URL due to the site being slashdotted / suffering from an HN hug of death. Twitter is no different, except maybe by being more ideologically polarizing.

The place for alternative URLs is, and has always been, the comments.

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angoragoats  6 months ago

Yeah, I understand this has been the case, but I guess I don’t understand why it can’t be changed, or why it’s even a good thing.

Seems like most others disagree with me though, so I guess I’ll just skip over anything posted on Twitter.

  • freediver  6 months ago

    Once you start discriminating content based on arbitrary rule (and this would be one), you are entering a slippery slope. Hence it is better to not let precedent take place in the first place.

    • angoragoats  6 months ago

      I don’t find this argument convincing at all. Implementing a rule like this would make the site better for a number of people.