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Politics, I'm definitely with you. "Current events", though, is an extremely broad term -- what exactly did you intend it to mean?

• tptacek 16y ago
  The guidelines currently say "if they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off topic". The predicate should be clarified, and the word "probably" removed.
  • geuis 16y ago
    The problem with this is tv news is uneducated for the most part. People end up posting things to HN that don't fit well, because it doesn't get discussed in other venues. So yeah, you're right though. It's got to be a hard line.
  • Swannie 16y ago
    Can we say use common sense? They'd cover Facebook IPO on TV. Yet it would have an impact on a lot of small startups that frequent here. "Common sense isn't all that common"
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  • Daniel14 16y ago
    Wouldn't that ban a lot of tech companies' current actions? Ie, isn't everything happening now in Silicon Valley etc a <i>current event</i>?