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Straddling the line of off topic
by divanvisagie 9y ago
Straddling the line of off topic
- dang 9y agoI'm sorry you got downvoted like that, but there are different flavors of offtopicness on HN and some of them are quite welcome. Whimsical tangents, particularly, that veer off in some unpredictable direction, can be quite good for intellectual curiosity, which is the main value of this site. The kind of offtopic discussions we really want to avoid are the generic and predictable ones. This includes vapid comments and ideological/political flames.