Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)
by ayewo on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:59AM
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If you have a moment, it would be nice if you could add the high level demographics of HN's readership to a section of the website.
Meanwhile, I've tried to see if this bit of info can be added to the HN repo maintained by Max Wolf.
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues...
Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)
by dang on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:16PM
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That's not a bad idea. All Max would need to do is add a link to one of the comments where I posted this data. But I should probably run the numbers again - it must be 3 years old by now, if not 4.
That's not accurate. HN is an American website hosted on American servers catering to everybody. The only prerequisite is intellectual curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Intellectual curiosity exists everywhere, HN's userbase is 50% outside the US, and at least 90% outside of Silicon Valley. That's important for people to understand.