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not a HN content

• coldtea 10y ago
  HN is a social bookmarking site. Anything that gets voted to the first page IS de facto HN content, as voted by HN users, unless it specifically violates some rule.
  • eterm 10y ago
    That rule would be the first rule in the guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    • drivebyops 10y ago
      Pretty much ever since this place got a large influx of users it hasn't been as good with the content posted
    • xyience 10y ago
      That fight was lost a long time ago.
    • Raphmedia 10y ago
      > unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. I think this article fits the description.
  • ilyanep 10y ago
    Without commenting on this specific article, if there's one thing I learned from reddit, it's that heavy moderation >>> "the users choose and everything is free". An example of the latter is pretty much any big subreddit you think of as awful and full of nonsense. Some examples of the former include the most well-respected science and history-related subreddits. I would honestly prefer there to be heavy moderation on HN with someone who has a vision for what "HN content" should be (even allowing for the fact that those people may disagree with me) than a free-for-all. Random sites on the Internet are not the entire Internet, nor are they the government. I believe in Free Speech when it comes to people with power over me, not so much when it comes to websites that I can choose to leave at any time.
• funkyy 10y ago
  Oh, so now you decide whats good for HN and whats not? HN is "democracy", users choose whats right.
• deleted 10y ago
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