While the site guidelines (see below) classifies general news as off-topic, I believe tech news sites like TC needs a higher level of votes before showing up on

While the site guidelines (see below) classifies general news as off-topic, I believe tech news sites like TC needs a higher level of votes before showing up on the front page. -- On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. 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