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Erik R. This is either going to be Reddit for very smart people, or Twitter for the alt right. Let's see which way it goes.
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đŸ—ŋ Simohamed It would really benefit from HN type guidelines: "strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says," etc. news.ycombinator.c...
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👉 LÊo I can see this becoming a Twitter meets Hacker News type of thing
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Ice I think this would be the best outcome we could hope for
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📉 Bill Why not both?
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🌊 Zero Two very smart alt right? not sure if those exist xd
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🔮 Liv How about geocities for the visually disinclined?
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🏒 Lucian Marin Geniuses only. Please show your IQ card. But now really, I think it's for nice people that have something to say.
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🌊 Zero Two nothing is stopping me from saying bad things to u right now tho.
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Alec Hansen How do you know someone is in Mensa? Don't worry, they'll let you know.
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😾 Oskar Is HN crowd alt-right? I see frustration brewing there often, but it's more of a 'I'm stuck at coding embedded sys for oil company at 240k/yr' kind of a thing than 'I hate poor people'
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Ice don't know what the culture is here on short trivial replies but: lmao
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Mihail I like to think of them - as a group - as people with above average intelligence who value critical thinking above all else. A certain degree of liberalism on social issues, emphasis on individual & economic freedom, aversion to political correctness. The best of all worlds really.
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Jayden I would say that a low percentage of HN is alt right but that both HN and the alt right are largely overly online young men. The thing is you don't need much political extreme to start a landslide in one direction. Things are a little more X here than elsewhere, some people that don't like that leave, some people that do like that show up because of it, things are even more X, repeat.
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Shaun Some moderation will hopefully be enforced to prevent the latter
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