Re:Stanford’s War Against Its Own Students
by dang on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:08PM
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> This is an interesting and intellectually curious article, but it is not separable completely from the rest of the website
It sounds like we're agreeing. See what I wrote above about tradeoffs; I was editing and might have added it after you posted (sorry).
> there is a large "EXTRA! Listen to 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling'" which is ideological flamebait that would not be allowed on HN, along with most of the rest of the website
Yes, that's one problem with tendentious sites: it's hard to evaluate an article independently of the provocations one encounters in situ. I think that's what we have to do, though. It's probably helpful to remember that this approach ends up irritating everyone in the long run—that is, whatever any reader's buttons are, something's going to occasionally appear on HN that pushes them—at least, if we're applying the policy correctly.
> use the internet archive rather than the original
I don't think that would help; it would just push the provocation to a different spot under the carpet. For example we'd get second-order flamewars about why site X was getting that treatment but not site Y. And I think it's pretty core to HN to have the (original) domain displayed beside a title.
It sounds like we're agreeing. See what I wrote above about tradeoffs; I was editing and might have added it after you posted (sorry).
> there is a large "EXTRA! Listen to 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling'" which is ideological flamebait that would not be allowed on HN, along with most of the rest of the website
Yes, that's one problem with tendentious sites: it's hard to evaluate an article independently of the provocations one encounters in situ. I think that's what we have to do, though. It's probably helpful to remember that this approach ends up irritating everyone in the long run—that is, whatever any reader's buttons are, something's going to occasionally appear on HN that pushes them—at least, if we're applying the policy correctly.
> use the internet archive rather than the original
I don't think that would help; it would just push the provocation to a different spot under the carpet. For example we'd get second-order flamewars about why site X was getting that treatment but not site Y. And I think it's pretty core to HN to have the (original) domain displayed beside a title.