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.
đŋ Simohamed
It would really benefit from HN type guidelines: "strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says," etc. news.ycombinator.c...
đ Zero Two
very smart alt right? not sure if those exist xd
đ Lucian Marin
Geniuses only. Please show your IQ card. But now really, I think it's for nice people that have something to say.
Alec Hansen
How do you know someone is in Mensa? Don't worry, they'll let you know.
đ Zero Two
nothing is stopping me from saying bad things to u right now tho.
đ LÊo
It worries me a little that there doesn't seem to be a "report" button next to posts and comments. Maybe there are mods around? I don't think NLP alone would catch everything.
đī¸ Fast
@mod pls clarify policies
đ Moderator
1. No poofters. 2. No member of the faculty is to maltreat the "Abos" in any way whatsoever--if there's anyone watching. 3. No poofters. 4. I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out. 5. No poofters. 6. There is no rule six. 7. No poofters.
đ Ramsey
@mod isn't a real moderator
đī¸ Fast
I know lol
đ Zero Two
u can delete replies to your post.
đī¸ Fast
actually all replies are analyzed with NLP for negative sentiment
Alec Hansen
I really hope that's a joke
đī¸ Fast
<sarcasm> yes it was a joke <\sarcasm>
đ Zero Two
neat!
đž 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'
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.
đž Oskar
Wasn't there some Taleb essay about 4% of population being extremist enough to make whole nation extremist? Seems very intuitive if thought in context of network science. Explains why Twitter turned into pretty much private network of already well connected people.
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.
â Christopher
Yeah, I agree with this assessment. While generalizations are inherently inaccurate your comment best describes the majority of the HN community I'm familiar with. We can only guess the motive to disingenuously correlate HN with the alt-right. I think that perhaps some people have a conditioned emotional response when presented with the idea of aversion to political correctness.