Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment [LWN.net]

Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Posted Jan 18, 2016 7:47 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment by spaetz
Parent article: Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

There's still an easy and quite reliable way to avoid seeing political discussions on LWN: whenever you find an article about a fairly political topic - like for instance a new and revolutionary currency - then simply avoid reading its comments section.

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Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Posted Jan 18, 2016 23:00 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (3 responses)

I'm not fussed either way but spaetz has a legitimate complaint: it's quite hard to skip over large off-topic threads in the "unread comments" interface.

Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Posted Jan 20, 2016 7:20 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

Missed that, don't use this interface much. Maybe because it's... not that convenient to use and should be enhanced :-)

Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Posted Jan 20, 2016 7:24 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Thought of this just now: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.lwn - now this would really rock!

(Check http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel if you never heard of gmane before)