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> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some i
by khedoros1 9y ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points.
There's some overlap between hackers and people interested in the history of gender politics and sociology, but I'd say that something like this is closer to an "ideological or political battle or talking point".
I read and enjoyed the article, voted up the submission, etc, but I think that the argument that it's technically off-topic has merit.
- shiohime 9y agoThanks - I read the article and I'm getting downvoted to hell for pointing out the blatantly increasing amount of political articles here. But seriously, these posts are better suited to reddit than here. I'm not even arguing that this is a bad article or anything, but it's pretty much the definition of off topic imo.
- orf 9y agoPerhaps, but it's not literally off topic and the implication that articles have to be related to development in some way is false.
- khedoros1 9y agoWhen I say "technically off-topic", I do mean "literally off-topic". I think that based on a reasonable reading of the topic guidelines, the post is off-topic. Specifically, I think it plays easily into an ideological talking point. > the implication that articles have to be related to development in some way is false. I agree. I wasn't trying to imply that something needs to be development-related to be on-topic. "Good hackers" often find things besides development interesting, and I'm not arguing that point.