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From the news guidlines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. I'd like t
by Sahhaese 7y ago
From the news guidlines:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
I'd like to hear you out if feel this is a new or interesting phenomenon.
- dkersten 7y agoAnd yet there are political posts (as well as the other things I mentioned) all the time and they rarely get downvoted to oblivion or flagged. shrug, I personally have very little interest in politics, so I'm with you on this, but the fact is that, against the guidelines or not, these posts happen all the time, get upvoted and generate lots of discussion (and in this particular case, I found nthompson's comment interesting enough that it was worth checking the comments) Besides, the guidelines also say "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate."
- viraptor 7y ago> And yet there are political posts (as well as the other things I mentioned) all the time and they rarely get downvoted to oblivion or flagged. Survivor bias. You can't downvote an article, but there's lots of them that reach high comment/vote radio or get flagged and you never see them.
- rectang 7y agoDirect partisan advocacy gets rejected swiftly. It's possible to have an interesting discussion on issues that have a political side, like health care, if you can live within the constraint of avoiding excessive partisanship and focus on the more abstract problem. Health care pricing is actually a great example and I've learned a lot from discussions of it on HN.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoFrome a game theory perspective, the ongoing price gouging in US healthcare is certainly an interesting phenomena.
- consz 7y agoI think it's an interesting phenomenon.