<story><title>The Wikimedia Foundation spends Wikipedia donations on political activism</title><url>https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>This is a problem across charities it seems - political activism is not necessarily bad, but when it&amp;#x27;s all generic woke stuff that has nothing to do with the charity&amp;#x27;s mission, it becomes really frustrating. The ACLU is another obvious example (as is Canada&amp;#x27;s equivalent the CCLA that I stopped supporting). But even a hospital I used to support has gotten into the business of pronouns and stuff, and regardless of the merit of that sort of thing, it&amp;#x27;s not anywhere near the top of causes people expect their hospital donations to go to. It would be nice to see charities much better stick with their mandates and not have this creep that happens where the current thing is somehow automatically an issue for them&lt;p&gt;Edit: I&amp;#x27;m also very interested in the way this story has been ranked on Hn. It&amp;#x27;s had a lot of votes in a short time that would normally get it right up to the top, yet it&amp;#x27;s currently on the second page. I know enough that there&amp;#x27;s not some nefarious thing happening, though it&amp;#x27;s curious whatever quirk of the algorithm &amp;#x2F; moderation is keeping the story down in the ranking</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greyface-</author><text>&amp;gt; Edit: I&amp;#x27;m also very interested in the way this story has been ranked on Hn.&lt;p&gt;It was submitted and flagkilled a few hours ago:  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=33167393&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=33167393&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if The Algorithm punished this for being a duplicate.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Wikimedia Foundation spends Wikipedia donations on political activism</title><url>https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>This is a problem across charities it seems - political activism is not necessarily bad, but when it&amp;#x27;s all generic woke stuff that has nothing to do with the charity&amp;#x27;s mission, it becomes really frustrating. The ACLU is another obvious example (as is Canada&amp;#x27;s equivalent the CCLA that I stopped supporting). But even a hospital I used to support has gotten into the business of pronouns and stuff, and regardless of the merit of that sort of thing, it&amp;#x27;s not anywhere near the top of causes people expect their hospital donations to go to. It would be nice to see charities much better stick with their mandates and not have this creep that happens where the current thing is somehow automatically an issue for them&lt;p&gt;Edit: I&amp;#x27;m also very interested in the way this story has been ranked on Hn. It&amp;#x27;s had a lot of votes in a short time that would normally get it right up to the top, yet it&amp;#x27;s currently on the second page. I know enough that there&amp;#x27;s not some nefarious thing happening, though it&amp;#x27;s curious whatever quirk of the algorithm &amp;#x2F; moderation is keeping the story down in the ranking</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vba616</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;gt;the business of pronouns and stuff, and regardless of the merit of that sort of 
  &amp;gt;thing, it&amp;#x27;s not anywhere near the top of causes people expect their hospital 
  &amp;gt;donations to go to
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
If I received a complaint along these lines, I would earnestly explain that we are looking into an electron recycling initiative to compensate for the extra letters in email signatures.</text></comment>