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I care about this issue a lot, but I don't see why this should be on Hacker News. I like HN because it provides a very different set of news items than other sites, with particular focuses on startups, technology, and science. I get the argument that "this affects everyone, including startups", but if too much of this hits the homepage than we will loose access to the stories that set HN apart.


I agree, and the solution is simple: upvote all other stories that fit your desired HN content and leave this story unvoted.

There was a paper a while back that explained how with the current algorithms, upvoting neighboring stories has largely the same effect as downvoting.


Go to the new page, upvote stories you think should be on HN.


I agree. Flag the not-fitting stories (if you have flag privileges); upvote the good stories; submit great articles.

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html


Civil liberties is another topic that HN cares about.


Well, right now, this is the only political story I see on the front page. The rest are about startups, technology, the goings-on of well-known websites, etc.


You are optimizing prematurely.




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