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Comment by tzakrajs | Hacker News Reader

Except Reid Hoffman is doing the ultimate in sideline sitting by supporting milquetoast campaigns and candidates with small ideas. This article is a puff piece where he manages to make no interesting or bold political claims. I am going to hold our leaders to a higher standard.

PAY YOUR TAXES REID, THATS ALL WE NEED.

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Please don't use HN for political battle and please don't use uppercase for emphasis. These are two of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I would edit my comment however the site doesn't have such advanced functionality.

Comments can be edited until the edit window runs out (2 hours). It's necessary for discussions to congeal after a while, because it's confusing to readers and unfair to repliers when an earlier comment removes what a later comment replied to. Allowing edits for a while, and then not, is the tradeoff here.

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Also, I think that this article was inherently political. To ask me not to mention politics in my comment of it is not in good faith. I can't see how this isn't more stifling to intellectual curiosity.

Everything is inherently political. Mentioning and battling are different.

I wrote about our approach to moderating politicized topics recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013092. If after reading that you still find something unclear, I'd be happy to answer additional questions.

Thank you for writing about this. I am happy to see you engaging with the community on this.

Before I clicked the comments button and without reading the article I made a mental bet with myself that the first comment would be something negative (a growing trend on HN I’ve observed). You did not disappoint (well kinda...).

@all: Is anyone aware of any sentiment analysis that’s been done on HN posts across time? I am fascinated by what may be digital equivalent of the Marxist proletariat uprising.

> what may be digital equivalent of the Marxist proletariat uprising.

What do you mean by this analogy?

I think he means the correction of a system with wealth inequality that leads to the people we love most suffering through no fault of their own. We can see the backsliding of quality of life for people who's output has been unchanging for decades. Many of us have friends and family who live "back home" and are not software engineers with healthy budgets. Many of us are married to or are related to people who come from different socio-economic, ethnic or racial backgrounds which have given us the uncommon knowledge (to privileged society) of what it is like to be stuck in a class of perpetually losing.

I see. I misunderstood then. IMO, that is not a good description of a Marxist uprising.

It's a common trend but I don't believe it's a growing one. Indignation comes up as a fast reflex response. Thoughtful comments are reflective and come more slowly. That's all one needs to explain why negative comments show up first.

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