Ask HN: Can we get a Wikileaks-free feed?

Posted by maukdaddy on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @07:12PM
from the ask-hn dept.

The front page is becoming very polluted with Wikileaks related stories. I'm tired of the conspiracy theories, attention whoring, endless propaganda (pro & con), and other Wikileaks material.

I'd like some way of viewing HN without this pollution.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we get a Wikileaks-free feed? by iwr on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @07:21PM (#1985359)

This is a momentary media phenomenon, like the stories about Obama around the time of the elections.

That said, it would be nice to have a way to filter out duplicate stories posted at the same time.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we get a Wikileaks-free feed? by borism on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @08:23PM (#1985556)

it has been around for 1.5 weeks now, when average media attention span is 1.5 days at best, so no it is not momentary.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we get a Wikileaks-free feed? by OneWhoFrogs on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @07:52PM (#1985472)

The nice thing about a community of hackers is that things like this are already done for you. Use HN Toolkit to blacklist WikiLeaks articles:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

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Re:Ask HN: Can we get a Wikileaks-free feed? by quadrant6 on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @07:42PM (#1985434)

On the flipside I've been checking HN more regularly because of it.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we get a Wikileaks-free feed? by borism on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @07:52PM (#1985467)

I tried to ask the same about removing TSA stories back in the day, and was flagged to death, so no.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we get a Wikileaks-free feed? by maukdaddy on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @07:53PM (#1985475)

I upvoted that request for the exact same reasons.

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