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it's more likely that your posts were simply deemed off-topic by the community. the guidelines [1] say "most stories about politics" are off-topic. [1] https:/
by woodrowbarlow 7y ago
it's more likely that your posts were simply deemed off-topic by the community. the guidelines [1] say "most stories about politics" are off-topic.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- prostheticvamp 7y agoAnd yet political discussions are constantly on the front page. How often do we make it a week without a lengthy tangent about real estate policy?
- nindalf 7y agoAfter reading HN for years I'm basically an expert on housing policy in the Bay Area. I may not know much about anything else but goddamn, I can talk for an hour and ten minutes without a break about the complexities of this one issue.
- lwf 7y agoWrite up a "compendium of SF housing policy complexities" article and post it to HN, then :)
- BrandoElFollito 7y agoSome am I, too some extend. And I live in France and mostly skip these articles. In my case it is rather that weird interest in esoteric things about which I read without a reason to be interested (though SF indeed changed a lot between my visit 20 years ago and last year)
- ddevault 7y agoI disagree. In truth, the flag functionality on HN is broken, and allows a small number of users to censor otherwise good posts. It happens a lot, and has little to no oversight.