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... or politics. Hacker News moderators become infuriated when there's too much 'political talk' and parent posts get [flagged] since this is considered naught
by mancerayder 9y ago
... or politics. Hacker News moderators become infuriated when there's too much 'political talk' and parent posts get [flagged] since this is considered naughty.
Intelligent political discussions off the police radar are 50% of the reason why I check this site everyday. I just don't get that level of discourse at the comment-level anywhere else.
- Fej 9y agoPolitical posts get flagged because they are explicitly against the purpose of the site. From the guidelines, for the benefit of the readers who haven't read them: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Given that political stories get flagged fairly consistently, I would guess that the majority of readers here agree with that guideline.
- mancerayder 9y agoFlagging is a majority vote? Seriously, what's the actual mechanism behind a flagging? I always assumed it was a privilege of one with a high rep point count.
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- j-walker 9y agoPlease do not encourage more political discussion here.
- mancerayder 9y agoI simply answered the parent question. A tiny minority of my submissions and comments have been political.
- yesenadam 9y agoI can't see how what you wrote answered the question in any way, or even attempted to. (p.s. I do sympathize with what you wrote about political discussion on here.)
- NoPoliticsHere 9y agoThrowaway but, keep the politics OFF of HN. HN content quality remains very high without the need for politics to creep in everywhere. If you want politics go elsewhere, not here.
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