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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by dang on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:32PM (#13109849)
The distinction isn't tech/notech. That's the most important thing to understand about this whole site!

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

I do think the purely political forum that a minority of users here seem to want, would best be served by a different site.

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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by superquest on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:50PM (#13110031)
The very niche "I want to argue politics, but only with other hackers" site!
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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by greglindahl on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:43PM (#13110514)
Which only applies to part of HN readers; from reading the comments here, many hackers appear to dislike the political arguments which take places on HN.
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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by fweespeech on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:55PM (#13116679)
> I do think the purely political forum that a minority of users here seem to want, would best be served by a different site.

Privacy issues, opinions on hiring practices, etc. are all topics that have heavy polarized sides with little to bridge the divide and would likely benefit from a shift in separating those topics from the solidly tech related ones.

Although, to be honest, I'm more concerned with the fact you are oblivious to this than I am about the fact you call change ignorance. I guess it does not really matter, I'll be off HN for a long while.

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