Comment by evmar
5 days ago
This is pretty much a canonical example of what does not belong on HN. A dumb topic, and then on top of that a dumb take on that dumb topic.
5 days ago
This is pretty much a canonical example of what does not belong on HN. A dumb topic, and then on top of that a dumb take on that dumb topic.
Reminder to flag the submission if you think it’s inappropriate for HN.
IMO, it doesn’t belong here.
With how long it's been on the front page, how controversial it is, and the fact that it was posted earlier and that post _was_ flagged... I would be willing to bet a moderator has somehow disabled the ability for this post specifically to be actually flagged and is simply ignoring those that click the flag button.
I'm sure that seems conspiratorial but the guy writing the post effectively "cuts the checks" for the moderation staff here.
It's not conspiratorial, it's how HN works:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
But it has nothing to do with "cutting checks". PG hasn't been doing that, nor influencing HN, nor even reading HN as far as I know, for many years.
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>A dumb topic, and then on top of that a dumb take on that dumb topic.
Agreed. A dumb topic, with dumb people discussing at length.
It's like calling the word of Jesus heresy ... if pg essays don't belong on HN then the word "hacker" has lost all meaning. He's describing a system and how to change it. What else are we doing all day on these computers?