[sheer_audacity]

Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout off about after a few drinks.

[dang]

I don't know if this article is any good (I haven't read it) but in general we go by article quality here, not site quality. Past explanations:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[spacebanana7]

The substance of an idea is more important than the identity of its author.

Plenty of poor people in pubs have come up with ideas that could've done well on HN.

[sheer_audacity]

No, ideas should always be stated with the context they were produced in, including the people who made it. You can’t publish a physics paper without context (why are we checking this equation, what is the theory behind it, who are the authors behind previous papers and what have they said), let alone a boring online news article. Ideas do not create themselves spontaneously, they need a mind behind them. Don’t be tedious!

[spacebanana7]

I believe in Pythagoras' Theorem despite the considerable uncertainty about the context in which that idea was produced

[sheer_audacity]

Sure, but why do you have to know it? Who taught you it? Why is it important? Do you just absorb things without context?

[dmpk2k]

Is it okay if I ask New York Times to not be posted here? It has done far more damage to the world that unherd ever can.

[sheer_audacity]

Go wild, the NYT has platformed some inherently questionable people and that should be questioned (let’s start with all the alt-right people they platformed over 2014-2017 making them out to be these friendly talking heads and go from there!) However, the U.K. has an ecosystem of right wing funded papers and being ignorant of that while talking about what’s in the article is cringe.

[YorkshireSeason]

Have you got substantial comments about the content of the article, the relationship between literary erudition, empathy, dictatorship and violence? Interestingly Mussolini was a writer too (he published a novel), and Mao worked (like me) as a librarian.

Aside, the author of the text was the literary editor of The Independent. I imagine that could be compatible with being too poor to write for the Telegraph, who knows ...

[d0mine]

It is like saying: don't post from internet here--it is full of garbage/trolls (it is true but irrelevant unless your point that all articles are garbage or all users are trolls).

The cancel culture is cancerous.

[sheer_audacity]

I’m just hearing Charlie Brown teacher muah muah muah noises here, what did you say?

Let’s just have no moderation at all then - HN for people who believe in the market of ideas (that’s what you lot like calling it, right? Some nerd shit like that)

[d0mine]

I don't see how the mere presence of the moderator makes him woke. Avoiding identity politics doesn't mean that garbage content shouldn't be taken out.