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Hi dang, Why was the parent comment wrong? There has been some speculation on Russia's involvement in the referendum [0] that was compared by some to the US el

Hi dang, Why was the parent comment wrong? There has been some speculation on Russia's involvement in the referendum [0] that was compared by some to the US election. [1] [0] https://www.google.ca/amp/s/elpais.com/elpais/2017/09/25/inenglish/1506323273_063367.amp.html https://www.google.ca/amp/s/elpais.com/elpais/2017/09/25/ine... [1] https://medium.com/dfrlab/electionwatch-russia-and-referendums-in-catalonia-192743efcd76 https://medium.com/dfrlab/electionwatch-russia-and-referendu... Was it too off-topic, or did it lack context?

dang 9y ago
It's off topic and heads in a bad direction: generic + speculative + political. That gravitational pull goes to one of those black holes whence no thread returns. The goal for HN is to have it be interesting, which means unpredictable, which means not repeating the same things over and over. Particularly when speculating (i.e. imagining in the absence of information) about something divisive, that's certain to be all we get, so the better part of valor is simply not to go there.