To be totally honest, I'd rather have HN allow posts that are of dubious topicality than to turn into another stackoverflow where topics are closed/deleted if t

To be totally honest, I'd rather have HN allow posts that are of dubious topicality than to turn into another stackoverflow where topics are closed/deleted if they don't meet the strictest definition of what's allowed on the site. Sometimes the harm of off-topic posts is much less than the harm in doing away with them.