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Re:Ask HN: [Meta] Popular/active political posts disappearin... by geezerjay on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:32PM (#13517507)
That's precisely how I see it.

Activists are trying to manipulate HN to disseminate their particular partisan point of view, and in the process they are manipulating this forum to focus on serving their private agenda and in the process ruining it for all of us who come here for the tech stuff.

And people like me come here for the tech stuff, not some activist's political agenda and their bile-spewing.

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Re:Ask HN: [Meta] Popular/active political posts disappearin... by maxerickson on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:04PM (#13518344)
Coming for the tech stuff is a private agenda too.
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Re:Ask HN: [Meta] Popular/active political posts disappearin... by geezerjay on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:14PM (#13525084)
> Coming for the tech stuff is a private agenda too.

The site is called Hacker News, not anti-Trump news.

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Re:Ask HN: [Meta] Popular/active political posts disappearin... by maxerickson on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:41PM (#13525304)
First of all, I couldn't resist the childish double entendre.

Second, On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

not 'On topic: tech stuff'.

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Re:Ask HN: [Meta] Popular/active political posts disappearin... by thescribe on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:46PM (#13517820)
It's like a form of parasitism on an already successful platform.
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