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I Quit Hacker News

(mattmaroon.com)
261 points cwan | 4 comments | 23 Nov 10 17:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.752s | source
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lwhi ◴[23 Nov 10 17:16 UTC] No.1934446[source]▶
Why not quit quietly?
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davidw ◴[23 Nov 10 17:28 UTC] No.1934509[source]▶
Perhaps PG will change his mind about allowing political articles (TSA)?
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devmonk ◴[23 Nov 10 17:34 UTC] No.1934539[source]▶
How is the TSA political?
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1. davidw ◴[23 Nov 10 17:41 UTC] No.1934569[source]▶
Smells like politics to me. It's all over the place here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/

If you feel a need to discuss it, perhaps that would be a more appropriate forum?

Not to mention featuring on sites like cnn.com. It's a pretty big issue that is certainly not "startups" or "tech". Yeah, there's tech involved, but the issue is how does society believe it should be used: politics.

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2. lwhi ◴[23 Nov 10 17:57 UTC] No.1934632[source]▶
So how do you decide if an article is 'political'?
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3. bballbackus ◴[23 Nov 10 18:49 UTC] No.1934878[source]▶
Something occupying /r/politics adds no merit to its political status.
4. davidw ◴[23 Nov 10 20:32 UTC] No.1935236[source]▶
Whether you like them or not, you really can't tell? To me it's pretty obvious what goes where, with a few things that are on the edge, like politics that are really important for tech and startups, like net neutrality. The TSA articles aren't tech or startups at all. I think the "pro-politics" people would still vote them up if there were no scanners and it was only about being groped by the goons.