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Re:The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the ... by DanielBMarkham on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:08AM (#15723154)
It's naked politics, sure enough, and if you try to say something meta or neutral, they'll down-vote you, because after all, we downvote here to indicate disagreement.

Which has turned HN from stuff-that-hackers-find-interesting to something closer to viewpoints-hackers-most-agree-with

And this is true for many other things aside from politics, politics is just where it's most obvious. (I think the format/process worked early on with a smaller, more startup-oriented crowd. Those days are long gone)

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Re:The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the ... by Fnoord on Friday November 17, 2017 @06:00PM (#15726694)
Every ecosystem consisting of groups of people ends up in that mess. Even consensus-driven systems end up that way. As long as you're free to make your own ecosystem, is it really a problem?
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