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Re: by KirinDave on Saturday May 09, 2009 @03:57PM (#601339)
I'm so confused why this poll exists. HackerNews already has a system built in to ask this question. You can hit the little triangle next to "No" on this page as many times as you like, but as long as people keep hitting their triangle on the frontpage it's all moot.
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Re: by xenophanes on Saturday May 09, 2009 @04:17PM (#601376)
HN also has a policy of sometimes overruling mass upvotes. Haven't you ever seen a high scoring story killed?
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Re: by KirinDave on Saturday May 09, 2009 @04:19PM (#601379)
I've only seen it happen on more clearly cut cases.
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Re: by xenophanes on Saturday May 09, 2009 @04:23PM (#601386)
You have trouble imagining that some people find Noam Chomsky to be a clearly cut case?
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Re: by KirinDave on Monday May 11, 2009 @08:01PM (#604583)
Yes. I thought that Hacker News was better than that. I'd expect this kind of "Stifle Things I Disagree With" to be more a reddit phenomena.

But I am not as active on HN these days (very busy post-acquisition), so maybe I've lost touch with the pulse of the community.

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Re: by xenophanes on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @05:06PM (#606161)
It's a "stifle radical political activists here because they are off topic and annoying" attitude, not stifling stuff due to disagreeing.

Do you want Ann Coulter links here, too? This isn't a politics site!

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Re: by KirinDave on Monday May 18, 2009 @10:39AM (#615037)
I think politics and startups are intrinsically intertwined.
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