Occupy Portland's Dec 3rd Tactic to Neutralize Police
So here's HN in 2012: the Hiring Thread, which leads this month with a chorus of comments about how effective HN has been for finding people awesome jobs or companies awesome candidates, is at the bottom of the front page just a few hours after submission.<p>Meanwhile, "Occupy Portland's Dec 3rd Tactic to Neutralize Police" is at the top.<p>It's unsurprising. The kinds of people who are interested in Occupy protest tactics are <i>very vociferously interested</i>. The kinds of people who are interested in the hiring thread aren't nearly as engaged with that topic (or, those who are aren't numerous). "Real", on-topic HN threads are at a systemic disadvantage to advocacy topics like Occupy.<p>Flagged, for whatever good that will do.