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Cool. When are we going to enforce the no politics rules again?

waiseristy 6y ago
You should have enough karma to downvote and flag this post if you think it goes against the rules. We can't expect the poor HN mods to enforce the rules 24/7 Aaaannnnd it's gone front the front page, that was quick
SubiculumCode 6y ago
There are politics of the normal sort, then there re politics of the sort that transcend the normal. If for example, Trump declared war on China, I for one would hope that HN would put up a discussion thread so that smarter than average individuals meet to discuss important issues.
- bmarquez 6y ago
  Basically what happens for very important non-technology news, is that users flag the post off the page (which is intended behavior according to the admins.) Then dang picks a post to resurrect and focus discussion on. I believe the last time this happened was when the US presidential election results came in.
eyelidlessness 6y ago
I cannot fathom how “military oath to constitution” is politics, but a zillion articles about tech companies deplatforming fascists as a “free speech” issue isn’t. Edit: okay assbutts. Downvote all you want but anyone want to actually use words to say why a military oath to the constitution is “politics”? Thought not.
- redisman 6y ago
  I’m tired of both and the discussion is devolving like all political chatter online
  - eyelidlessness 6y ago
    So how is the legal responsibility of the military being stated officially by the military “political”? You’re tired, I am too. But maybe your quarrel is with the people who are making this a question that needs answered, not the answer.
dang 6y ago
There's never been such a rule on HN (other than an experiment we once tried for a few days, which failed). That doesn't mean that all political submissions are cool on HN. If you want to read about how we approach this, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If there's still a question after reviewing that material, I'd like to know what it is.

You should have enough karma to downvote and flag this post if you think it goes against the rules. We can't expect the poor HN mods to enforce the rules 24/7 Aaaannnnd it's gone front the front page, that was quick

SubiculumCode 6y ago

There are politics of the normal sort, then there re politics of the sort that transcend the normal. If for example, Trump declared war on China, I for one would hope that HN would put up a discussion thread so that smarter than average individuals meet to discuss important issues.

bmarquez 6y ago
Basically what happens for very important non-technology news, is that users flag the post off the page (which is intended behavior according to the admins.) Then dang picks a post to resurrect and focus discussion on. I believe the last time this happened was when the US presidential election results came in.

eyelidlessness 6y ago

I cannot fathom how “military oath to constitution” is politics, but a zillion articles about tech companies deplatforming fascists as a “free speech” issue isn’t. Edit: okay assbutts. Downvote all you want but anyone want to actually use words to say why a military oath to the constitution is “politics”? Thought not.

redisman 6y ago
I’m tired of both and the discussion is devolving like all political chatter online
- eyelidlessness 6y ago
  So how is the legal responsibility of the military being stated officially by the military “political”? You’re tired, I am too. But maybe your quarrel is with the people who are making this a question that needs answered, not the answer.

dang 6y ago

There's never been such a rule on HN (other than an experiment we once tried for a few days, which failed). That doesn't mean that all political submissions are cool on HN. If you want to read about how we approach this, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If there's still a question after reviewing that material, I'd like to know what it is.