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PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN

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482 points ilamont | 1 comments | 11 Jul 20 21:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | source
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FilterSweep ◴[11 Jul 20 23:53 UTC] No.23807276[source]▶
Are we sure the civil war isn’t being caused by sychophants like PG himself cozying up to the alt-right while maintaining considerable power over online discourse?

Maybe these are the """hard questions"""[0] that need to be asked, as opposed to calling for a return to the Jim Crow era.

You could easily "turn off" Twitter.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

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kgraves ◴[11 Jul 20 23:59 UTC] No.23807317[source]▶
> ...PG himself cozying up to the alt-right?

Do you have evidence for this statement?

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FilterSweep ◴[12 Jul 20 00:00 UTC] No.23807326[source]▶
Here: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18426853

And here: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2474708/does-this-mega...

Perhaps if the queen of Hacker News chose to be clear about his beliefs his minions wouldn’t need to scurry to claim "he doesn’t actually believe this"

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reversii ◴[12 Jul 20 01:00 UTC] No.23807693[source]▶
It's unfortunate you're getting censored for criticizing Dear Leader.

Yet another reminder of just how creepy the cult of personality HN has around Paul Graham is. Even on an article discussing him, you can't say anything critical without being downvoted and flagged.

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1. FilterSweep ◴[12 Jul 20 03:14 UTC] No.23808500[source]▶
I’ve been here for quite a while, and I’ve learned more from this community (which included developers across the planet) than I’ve learned from any other community online.

I’ve known PG’s biases and dogwhistles for a while ("What you can’t say" is a FOGHORN of a dogwhistle), but the political landscape has changed.

When PG is expressing open regret for opening this forum, despite dang doing most of the work, he’s signaling that the discussion of this forum isn’t going in the direction he wants. This has been the most civil forum on the surface web for a long time. And that says a lot.