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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.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...


"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.


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.


Perhaps you could hold yourself to the same standards? Recent:

Snark: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609142 46456130

Sneering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744171 46393326

Flamebait: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522904 46193164 46554648

Dismissals: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781321 46609142 46393326 46193164

Political/Ideological battles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711677 46284385 46284338 46283174 46193164


> Unless you want to pull up a specific moderation rule instructing me otherwise.

I'm happy I was able to help fulfill your request. Have a good one!




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