Forum without politics, please

1 points by Tomsredwagon 8 years ago | 3 comments

Can someone please create a HN like forum where it is moderated to stay on topic and prohibit strictly political posts? If I want social justice propaganda or to slam Trump I'll go to reddit.

Broken_Hippo 8 years ago |

HN doesn't have a lot of that now. The ones that get through are generally things that affect a wide number of people and industries, including tech. Sometimes it is even a mixed subject - political issues that are affecting technology. Can't you simply just skip over the stories or posts you don't want to pay attention to, since it isn't that much of it?

Or if you are that motivated, build one yourself? It seems quite a bit of work just to get it started and even more work to keep it moderated in the way you want - especially if you use volunteers as moderators.

celealra 8 years ago |

I've only been on the forum for a small amount of time but I think technologists (or "hackers") would benefit from gaining exposure to political issues and then analyzing them from a technological perspective (unlike in reddit). I think hacking is about finding pain-points in society and right now it seems like a lot of those stem from politics.

johnpython 8 years ago |

You can simply ignore the political posts on HN. If criticism directed at Trump and "social justice propaganda" is bothering you so much, perhaps you need to reconsider your life.