Comment by tomhow

21 days ago

Please don't make sweeping claims about what HN “is”.

The HN is a large group of people with a range of views that maps to a normal distribution on most topics, with a slight skew to left-libertarianism. It's common for people to notice "too much" of what they dislike on HN, and then to think the site is dominated by that thing.

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NewUser76312  18 days ago

"I've noticed" was my wording - communicating my claim and opinion. I will make claims and opinions on a message forum, thank you very much. Unless you want to pull up a specific moderation rule instructing me otherwise.

"Slight skew" is just your claim and opinion. We're both equally entitled to them. I'd be happy to look at actual data: try an anonymous poll on HN for political affiliation sometime. We both know that skew wouldn't be "slight".

Please don't make unfounded counter claims without evidence.

  • ImPostingOnHN  10 days ago

    From the guidelines:

    - Be kind. Don't be snarky.

    - Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

    - Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

    - Please don't post shallow dismissals

    - Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

    - Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

    - Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.