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Are political stories still banned? Because "wiki" "leaks" has become an unambiguously political actor without any pretense at objectivity (the "leaks" over th
by JeremyBanks 10y ago
Are political stories still banned? Because "wiki" "leaks" has become an unambiguously political actor without any pretense at objectivity (the "leaks" over the last year were mostly not leaks, and were timed to protect Trump more than to ensure the stories spread for their own merit).
- EJTH 10y agoHow so? What evidence is there that wikileaks is "helping Trump" or the russians?
- danso 10y agoThe political ban was canceled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251
- dang 10y agoThat might be a bit misleading for some readers, so let me clarify. Most political stories are off-topic here, especially pure politics and most especially pure partisan politics: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We tried a no-politics-for-a-week experiment that we canceled after a couple days (mainly because a week turned out to be longer than needed). When we did that we reverted to the status quo, described above. That certainly does not mean that most politics is now on-topic for HN. The way I think of it is that HN has a small 'budget' for politicized stories and it's important not to spend that budget on run-of-the-mill material. It should be saved for particularly substantive articles and/or ones where the topic is clearly of core interest to this community. The budget needs to be small because, if it weren't, politics would quickly drown out everything else and destroy the thoughtful discussion we're hoping for.