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Please do not downvote. Come and discuss. Drive-by comments and rapid-fire memes in response to Macedonian blogspam on Facebook is what got America into this me

Please do not downvote. Come and discuss. Drive-by comments and rapid-fire memes in response to Macedonian blogspam on Facebook is what got America into this mess.

gus_massa 10y ago
Your comment is not very clear. Stories can´t be downvoted. I guess that you are asking that the story not to be flagged. The problem is that this story is 100% political, so it's off-topic according to the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > What to Submit > 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. And there has been a few big stories in HN about the current(last?) presidential race in USA. Usually in this kind of cases the mods allow a few exceptions, but only a few. -- Also, you posted 4 of the 6 top level comments in this thread. It's bad netiquette. And the comments are not about the article, but about related political topics.
- facetube 10y ago
  You have a duty to oppose blatant electoral manipulation, blatant DNC corruption, the failure of the DNC to present any kind of credible economic plan, and the insane obstructionism of the RNC that has caused our institutions to rot. You need to feel that. This is unamerican. If you don't elect someone based upon what they say they will do – kill the families of suspected terrorists (a form of collective punishment), destroy the fourth estate through repeated insane conspiratorial claims of a professional media conspiracy to discredit him – then reason is lost. The country is lost. People judge others by their words for a reason: they are a leading indicator of their actions. God help us. The country cannot have the FBI interfering during early voting – a period during which 40% of votes were cast – with fact-free partisan allegations. It is unamerican. It is tragic. It must stop.

Please do not downvote. Come and discuss. Drive-by comments and rapid-fire memes in response to Macedonian blogspam on Facebook is what got America into this mess.

gus_massa 10y ago

Your comment is not very clear. Stories can´t be downvoted. I guess that you are asking that the story not to be flagged. The problem is that this story is 100% political, so it's off-topic according to the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > What to Submit > 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. And there has been a few big stories in HN about the current(last?) presidential race in USA. Usually in this kind of cases the mods allow a few exceptions, but only a few. -- Also, you posted 4 of the 6 top level comments in this thread. It's bad netiquette. And the comments are not about the article, but about related political topics.

facetube 10y ago
You have a duty to oppose blatant electoral manipulation, blatant DNC corruption, the failure of the DNC to present any kind of credible economic plan, and the insane obstructionism of the RNC that has caused our institutions to rot. You need to feel that. This is unamerican. If you don't elect someone based upon what they say they will do – kill the families of suspected terrorists (a form of collective punishment), destroy the fourth estate through repeated insane conspiratorial claims of a professional media conspiracy to discredit him – then reason is lost. The country is lost. People judge others by their words for a reason: they are a leading indicator of their actions. God help us. The country cannot have the FBI interfering during early voting – a period during which 40% of votes were cast – with fact-free partisan allegations. It is unamerican. It is tragic. It must stop.