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Part of that could be from peoples' adherance to the HN norm of "no politics allowed".

• hackuser 10y ago
  > the HN norm of "no politics allowed" That isn't a norm I'm aware of. There is plenty of politics every day on HN; there are some limits, but it's common.
  • hawkice 10y ago
    I think there is a norm of "no purely political stories", and an expectation that it is a story the hacker news audience will care about. Internet privacy rules seem very much in-bounds.
• paulmd 10y ago
  Personally I find the norm here of people constantly spouting off about "rules and norms" to be even more annoying. This community has active moderators, moderation is their job, not yours. If you don't like a story or a post, flag it so the moderators can do their jobs and move on. I would rather have a moderator look at a flagged post, determine it's inside/outside rules, and flag/unflag it, than have to read a dozen posts from the peanut gallery with snide rules lectures or debates on whether it's in the rules or not. (not quite a direct response to you in particular, more of a general observation)
• dragonwriter 10y ago
  That's not an HN norm (though a temporary experiment in that direction was carried out), though a much weaker form of it is.