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It is "off-topic" how exactly? This is a misuse of flags, and instead you auto-zapped it.
by revelation 10y ago
It is "off-topic" how exactly?
This is a misuse of flags, and instead you auto-zapped it.
- dang 10y agoIt's obviously off topic; the topic is the news described in the title. Veering into most-controversial-generic-thing-associated-with-controversial-thing-X is hands down the worst direction politicized threads can take on HN, and they're borderline to begin with. Whimsical or unpredictable tangents are ok, but generic ideological tangents are always off-topic. They're black holes: they suck everything in, including all the oxygen of thoughtful discussion. Because these things are so generic you can always make a case for their relevance to a specific story, but the proof is in the pudding: what happens when discussions veer off this way? The pudding sucks. This one in particular is embarrassingly terrible. This pudding needs to stop forthwith.
- davidw 10y agoYou guys are going to need to find a way to back off on the US politics. I have no idea how... it's all I can think about myself right now, but it's a poisonous topic.
- dang 10y agoHN can't be immune from macro trends, and this is a doozy.
- davidw 10y agoYep. It's way more important than, say, how to write and maintain a large code base in Elixir. Politics can easily crowd out that kind of thing from the front page. I don't know what to say. I can't think about much else, but sooner or later, maybe things will return to some semblance of normalcy, and I do like the tech/startup discussions here.
- dang 10y agoWe've been through this several times. HN will settle down.