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dmix · 2021-02-26 06:48:51+00:00

I'd rather it be political or everything else...

I shouldn't have made it a hashtag.

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sctb | karma 8073 | avg karma 1.38 · | 2018-02-05 23:02:27

Drive-by inflammatory political hashtags are like, not what we're here for.

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

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tomjen3 | karma 9638 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2022-11-07 23:35:08

But politics is not what this site is about. And nothing about Twitter is interesting from a curiousity standpoint.

disposekinetics | karma 99 | avg karma 0.45 · | 2020-05-27 02:08:55+00:00

It's simply not something I want as part of my feed. Be it a politician I loathe or tolerate.

angryasian | karma 2733 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2022-08-03 11:53:35

agree, I wish this discussion was less about politics and more of the impact on social media

dmix | karma 39707 | avg karma 3.48 · | 2020-03-22 01:39:25

If your intention really was to reduce the mention of politics on here this is a poor way to go about it.

joshka | karma 1414 | avg karma 1.52 · | 2021-01-11 21:48:01+00:00

I'd prefer to see a politics tag added to hn.

NicoJuicy | karma 10294 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2018-03-13 18:34:08

I understand what you mean, but political content is just not allowed.

Perhaps for the good ;)

Ps. I posted it

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marcod | karma 487 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2023-11-08 19:48:37

I was worried this would be a political post :p

oblib | karma 5392 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2023-12-19 18:06:22

I know politics is on the list of things not to post, but I think this qualifies for the exceptions to that.

davidw | karma 63893 | avg karma 3.82 · | 2010-09-23 21:09:27+00:00

Please, no politics. This is the wrong site for that.

hutzlibu | karma 9787 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2020-06-17 10:54:42+00:00

Almost any topic is potential political.

But all facebook cares about, is not to be blamed again for fake news on their network are responsible again for a not desired outcome of the election. So this is just one step towards that image, nothing more.

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luord | karma 2640 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2020-07-11 05:17:29

Or one could post exclusively about one's interests and nothing even remotely political. That's what I have in my blog.

Of course, not the same applies to my twitter and facebook accounts. I've never posted anything really controversial, but there are some political posts. I remain optimistic, though, maybe I won't have to delete them. Hopefully.

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jowea | karma 804 | avg karma 1.56 · | 2024-02-09 22:29:01

I'm not sure I want Meta (or anyone) directing public discourse away from politics and controversial topics either.

Solvitieg | karma 369 | avg karma 2.91 · | 2021-01-07 00:24:08

I wish social media platforms would be agnostic to political events and focus on facilitating conversations.

smt88 | karma 21138 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2021-09-25 08:07:57

I don't think this site can or should be a venue to discuss 100% of matters of public interest. It's one of the few social media that isn't rage-inducing

Also, the author is a hyper-partisan and (left-wing, not right-wing as some here have assumed) and this report has a political agenda.

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eviltories | karma 13 | avg karma 2.6 · | 2017-12-05 17:40:26+00:00

Sorry about that, I will try to refrain from inciting political arguments in future.

vinhboy | karma 4492 | avg karma 5.72 · | 2016-05-02 20:19:32

Sorry dang. I shouldn't have used such a politically charged word. Will keep this in mind next time.

Chris2048 | karma 2919 | avg karma 0.51 · | 2017-01-24 14:18:32+00:00

It wasn't a good idea. 'political' wasn't concretely defined, and so the ban just made it easier to flag any topic you don't like by way of a shifting definition of the word.

tpmx | karma 10347 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2023-10-28 14:46:59

I now think that allowing political topics on HN was a mistake. I did cheer for it previously - sorry.