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For example, I would love to know about details about the following: (84 days ago) [flagged] Turkey's president says all he wants is same powers as Hitler (tel

For example, I would love to know about details about the following: (84 days ago) [flagged] Turkey's president says all he wants is same powers as Hitler (telegraph.co.uk) (48 days ago) [flagged] Tesla stock up 2% on news of upcoming announcement, down 1% after announcement (google.com) I find it irritating (and it seems you've noticed this too) that "too-political" articles get flagged. Posting articles does not imply agreement with them. Are they not worth discussing?

wmf 10y ago
Politics is covered in the guidelines so it's intentional, not a trend that people have noticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
gus_massa 10y ago
From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. The fist one "Turkey's president ..." I think it falls in the too political category. It doesn't matter if you or me agree or disagree with that article. An article that you or me agree with can be also too political. But that article is not [dead], it's only [flagged], so was less visible but not killed. The second one "Tesla stock ..." is also [dead]. I can't see the URL. Looking only at the title it doesn't seams to obviously bad, but the URL is strange, because it's in google.com . Was it a google redirect? Was it a link to the google stock graph? Was there another article in the front page with a similar content? I'm not sure what happened with it. Anyway, to get an authoritative response you can write to the mods: hn@ycombinator.com That's also useful if you find a false positive and the vouch button doesn't unkill the story.

wmf 10y ago

Politics is covered in the guidelines so it's intentional, not a trend that people have noticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

gus_massa 10y ago

From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. The fist one "Turkey's president ..." I think it falls in the too political category. It doesn't matter if you or me agree or disagree with that article. An article that you or me agree with can be also too political. But that article is not [dead], it's only [flagged], so was less visible but not killed. The second one "Tesla stock ..." is also [dead]. I can't see the URL. Looking only at the title it doesn't seams to obviously bad, but the URL is strange, because it's in google.com . Was it a google redirect? Was it a link to the google stock graph? Was there another article in the front page with a similar content? I'm not sure what happened with it. Anyway, to get an authoritative response you can write to the mods: hn@ycombinator.com That's also useful if you find a false positive and the vouch button doesn't unkill the story.