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From the HackerNews Guidelines: What not to post: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new
by munsters 6y ago
From the HackerNews Guidelines:
What not to post: "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."
and a little further down:
"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for."
- perl4ever 6y agoWhat if people could downvote articles, but it would have no visible effect, only advising moderators? Or, just track how many downvotes and flagged comments are in a thread and kill anything (the whole thread) that gets even minimal controversy? If everything that is basically redundant with Reddit or other aggregators was deleted, I think it would be like 60+% at this point, but why not go ahead and try it? Enforcing "high quality" discussion on low quality topics is manifestly a complete failure.