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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 bec

• 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.