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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports
by dfabulich 7y ago
https://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.