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dang: where did we arrive on the politics matter yesterday? Is this in or out? Serious question.
by ibejoeb 10y ago
dang: where did we arrive on the politics matter yesterday? Is this in or out? Serious question.
- idlewords 10y agoI believe the instructions were "when in doubt, flag," and this is clearly a political story.
- dang 10y agoIt's clearly on topic for HN in general, but has to be out this week, given that we asked people to err on the side of flagging politics and the reason the investment was made was political. Doing this experiment for a week is demonstrating how inseparable the political aspects of these stories are, and how "just ban politics" is not an answer to the flamewar and incivility problems that HN faces. So when it's done, our current thinking is to revert to the status quo ante, with some additional guidelines to encourage civility and to ask people not to use the site primarily for politics.