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Probably people flagging it. I tend to flag stories that are "just news" and don't have a particularly compelling link to standard HN topics, or ones in which H
by jerf 7y ago
Probably people flagging it. I tend to flag stories that are "just news" and don't have a particularly compelling link to standard HN topics, or ones in which HN isn't going to have any particularly interesting angle to add to the conversation unique to the community's strengths, or ones that are coming up a lot, like this one. (I mean, yes, nominally everything is on topic, but there's still boundaries.)
There's a strong attractor basin around discussing the same news as everybody else that's worth pushing HN away from, in general.
- baby 7y agoI really hope people can stop flagging these then. One of the world's capital is about to go down and this is going to impact all of us.
- dfabulich 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- condercet 7y agoOkay, then let's talk about the protester's novel tactics and use of technology to coordinate a distributed, leaderless protest. That seems like it should be fair game.
- reaperducer 7y agoI see it as more akin to the first paragraph of the HN rules: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
- davidw 7y ago"Things that impact all of us" could easily occupy the entire front page of HN and crowd out actual HN content, which by and large is less important than many current events.