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I note that the rules are "guidelines", not "rules", and I think that's deliberate. There's meant to be an element of human judgement that can't necessarily be
by Zak 6y ago
I note that the rules are "guidelines", not "rules", and I think that's deliberate. There's meant to be an element of human judgement that can't necessarily be spelled out in advance. Allowing things that you might not inspect seems like the inverse of https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/ https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/
- vmception 6y agoExcept if you ever challenge the guidelines they magically become rules, consistently. I don't think we are even supposed to talk about that since its "unsubstantive", when convenient - which is always the case to the people that don't want to be challenged on it.
- robocat 6y agoAt least some of the guidelines are hard rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482110
- Zak 6y agoI note that while dang writes there that it's a hard rule, the comment it was in referenced to wasn't killed. That's different from my understanding of what a hard rule is; in communities I moderate, I will always remove content that goes against something I consider a hard rule. Most of the HN guidelines are subject to a fair amount of human interpretation.