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How is this relevant to Hacker News?

• enneff 16y ago
  How is online currency _not_ relevant to Hacker News?
• jonursenbach 16y ago
  Starting to grow tired of all this "how is this relevant" stuff lately. If you don't like it, flag or ignore it and get on with your lives.
  • natep 16y ago
    I'm sure someone sufficiently motivated could write a program to see what percentage of items on the front page have "This isn't HN" in the comments, because it it seems like it's happening more and more.
    • ks 16y ago
      I have also noticed an increase of flagged articles that actually was "HN". At least from my personal point of view.
  • atomical 16y ago
    Tough.
  • raganwald 16y ago
    What's wrong with asking? I generally flag things that are gratuitously inappropriate, and ignore those I don't like but think are appropriate. Sometimes something seems inappropriate but popular, and I think I understand why. I flag it and carry on. But once in a while there's a post that I think is inappropriate but I don't understand why. So I ask. That being said, I do get why using the question as a passive-aggressive way of saying "Not HN" is tiresome and also a violation of the guidelines. No judgment on this specific question, just a general comment...
    • khafra 16y ago
      In the case of ingenuously asking, the connotations attached to the question have to be dispelled somehow; either by asking a different way (perhaps with more specificity) or adding an explicit disclaimer to that effect.