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There isn’t a official HN guideline that clearly delineates between the two scenarios and says why one is allowed and the other isn’t. My point is that it’s en
by tempsy 6y ago
There isn’t a official HN guideline that clearly delineates between the two scenarios and says why one is allowed and the other isn’t.
My point is that it’s entirely subjective, but everyone flagging the Kobe story in January was yelling about how it broke site policy when it’s clearly just a preference thing.
- tomhoward 6y agoClearly, on a community-driven site, the appropriateness of a given story will be determined by the community's sentiment. Nobody said the Kobe story wasn't important in the grand scheme of things; just not of particular interest to this community. Whereas it's not hard to see why, on a site called Hacker News, the community would find noteworthy the passing of a pioneer of music produced on computers.