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Oh please HN, stop posting articles that are 100% political theory without a single link to tech. At the least, please create a category for naked politics. No

Oh please HN, stop posting articles that are 100% political theory without a single link to tech. At the least, please create a category for naked politics. No, hide doesnt work very well (multiple devices, times out, etc). One time a mod told me that articles with no link to tech got deleted. That really doesn't appear to be the. This is yet another capitalist vs communist (literally, the labor theory of value was a Marx thing) diatribe that has no relation to the tech oriented stuff many came here for. There are plenty of other political sites for stuff like this. I often wonder, if you could vote down stories, these would probably have a severe split and maybe not make the front page or stay there. Only being able to upvote let's a small contingent push something up (just ask the bitcoin people).

dragonwriter 9y ago
If you think it's off-topic, then click “flag” and move on.
- jnordwick 9y ago
  I did. And hid it. Now I'll just have to hide it everywhere else, and ignore when it comes up looking through through old articles and search results. Just because you can flag isn't carte blanche to post anything. I like the site much better (and I'm sure many others too) when it stays in its technical oriented wheelhouse.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    > Just because you can flag isn't carte blanche to post anything Just because you have certain preferences isn't carte blanche to launch off-topic diatribes in threads on articles that don't adhere to them about how you prefer HN should be focussed. > I like the site much better (and I'm sure many others too) when it stays in its technical oriented wheelhouse. That is neither the official focus [0] nor, evidently—from what the community submits and keeps on the front page—the consensus of the community. [0] From the guidelines: “On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” Obviously, whether any particular article meets they standard is subjective, which is why we have upvotes and flags and algorithms taking them and other factors (e.g., the flamewsr detector) into account.

dragonwriter 9y ago

If you think it's off-topic, then click “flag” and move on.

jnordwick 9y ago
I did. And hid it. Now I'll just have to hide it everywhere else, and ignore when it comes up looking through through old articles and search results. Just because you can flag isn't carte blanche to post anything. I like the site much better (and I'm sure many others too) when it stays in its technical oriented wheelhouse.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > Just because you can flag isn't carte blanche to post anything Just because you have certain preferences isn't carte blanche to launch off-topic diatribes in threads on articles that don't adhere to them about how you prefer HN should be focussed. > I like the site much better (and I'm sure many others too) when it stays in its technical oriented wheelhouse. That is neither the official focus [0] nor, evidently—from what the community submits and keeps on the front page—the consensus of the community. [0] From the guidelines: “On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” Obviously, whether any particular article meets they standard is subjective, which is why we have upvotes and flags and algorithms taking them and other factors (e.g., the flamewsr detector) into account.