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Re:Show HN: Hacker News 2018, Year in Review by paulddraper on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:44PM (#18943837)
I think comment quality is still high. But over the last 18 months, I've noticed a lot of -- IDK -- partisan(?) votes.

Certain topics -- UBI, NN, GDPR, US vs EU politics -- seem to get comments upvoted/downvoted purely based on what side the comment supports, rather than the quality of the comment.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News 2018, Year in Review by scottlocklin on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:47PM (#18943853)
Honestly such subjects should not be in a technical blog/aggregator. The most successful forum I have ever seen only had two rules:

1) On topic (quantitative finance)

2) No politics, no religion

Politics and religion can come up when it comes to quanting, but there is no reason for them to, and raising these topics is purely destructive. There are plenty of places to go argue with someone about noise if you want to.

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