News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016). Parent comment

Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by michaelt on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:53AM (#25789331)
It's an interesting result - it only counts upvotes by users from before December 2008 who are still active on the site

After all, if you changed HN into a My Little Pony discussion site you'd lose 98% of old users, retaining the 2% who like ponies - and thereafter, 100% of remaining old users would like ponies.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by dang on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:18PM (#25799986)
That's a good point. But there are a lot of users from 2008 still active on the site. It would be interesting to see how the attrition rate has changed over time, but I've never looked into that.
[ Parent | on HN ]