Re:Ask HN: Why is censorship rampant on HN?
by brudgers on Friday July 22, 2016 @03:13PM
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Those topics are often interesting to me. Generally the discussions that they illicit are low quality relative to typical Hacker News discussions.
In a way, this thread sort of hits at two of the reasons I find them low quality:
1. Those topics generate a lot of meta-discussion about Hacker News rather than expertise.
2. Those topics tend to be interpreted as a license to insult people with whom one disagrees. My conclusions about the quality of those topics are both logical and based on empirical observation of many samples. That they diverge from someone else's makes them no less so.
In a way, this thread sort of hits at two of the reasons I find them low quality:
1. Those topics generate a lot of meta-discussion about Hacker News rather than expertise.
2. Those topics tend to be interpreted as a license to insult people with whom one disagrees. My conclusions about the quality of those topics are both logical and based on empirical observation of many samples. That they diverge from someone else's makes them no less so.
Good luck.