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I Quit Hacker News

(mattmaroon.com)
261 points cwan | 2 comments | 23 Nov 10 17:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pg ◴[23 Nov 10 18:50 UTC] No.1934880[source]▶
The TSA stories are certainly fluff in the sense of being easy to upvote, even if the underlying principles are important. Ironically, so are posts saying that one is tired of TSA stories.

I do believe the TSA stories represent a danger. If there's a road from hacking to politics, it's probably civil liberties. So already for the past week TSA stories have had an automatic penalty applied. Or more precisly, they've been autotagged as being political, which entails a penalty.

There are no TSA stories on the frontpage at this moment. In fact, the frontpage is a pretty normal HN frontpage now.

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1. jdp23 ◴[23 Nov 10 19:08 UTC] No.1934956[source]▶
Paul, I'm thinking about your comment in "What we look for" about how YC founders enjoy breaking rules, just not the ones that matter.

In your view, is the "no politics" rule here one that matters?

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2. YuriNiyazov ◴[23 Nov 10 20:08 UTC] No.1935144[source]▶
Yes. Hacker News is a place that exists because "honor amongst thieves" (or, in this case, "honor amongst hackers") is strongly enforced. Simply stated, every HN guidelines actually matters.