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Not to be too meta, but I kinda like that this just has [flagged] in the title, without much else changed. Hopefully it serves as a challenge to discuss the top

Not to be too meta, but I kinda like that this just has [flagged] in the title, without much else changed. Hopefully it serves as a challenge to discuss the topic while following the "interpret each other generously" rule, and discussing reasonably. Ever since I got called on being less than charitable in a past comment thread, I've really come to love that rule here.

xupybd 5y ago
I suspect this was flagged due to the off topic rule. I loved the article but expected it to get flagged as it's not focused on technology.
- omginternets 5y ago
  Which off-topic rule? Non-technological topics are more than welcome, here.
  - xupybd 5y ago
    From the guidelines. " What to Submit 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"
    - danielam 5y ago
      "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Unless I am to read this fragment to mean "gratifying one's superficial fetish for frivolous novelty", why wouldn't this article satisfy this criterion in a general sense? Feser offers an analysis of what he takes to be the moral hazards of the material prosperity, etc of capitalism. If that can't be said to be a topic of interest, then I'm sorry, but IMO, that's an indictment of the accuser, not the article. I read articles on HN every day that are far less substantive or original than this blog post. Plenty of posts are off-topic if we go by the description above. And articles on the subject of capitalism have been featured on the front page just these last two days which is why I thought this article's publication was especially opportune. I don't wish to make accusations, but it's difficult not to suspect prejudice.
      - xupybd 5y ago
        I agree with what you've said but most political content gets flagged here. The few that don't normally have something technology related in them. The comments that go political end up flagged. Then Dang has to jump in to calm everyone down.
        tablespoon 5y ago
        Honestly, I doubt this was flagged because of politics; it was most likely flagged because of religion. There are not a small number of evangelical atheists here, and probably even more fundamentalist capitalists.

xupybd 5y ago

I suspect this was flagged due to the off topic rule. I loved the article but expected it to get flagged as it's not focused on technology.

omginternets 5y ago
Which off-topic rule? Non-technological topics are more than welcome, here.
- xupybd 5y ago
  From the guidelines. " What to Submit 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"
  - danielam 5y ago
    "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Unless I am to read this fragment to mean "gratifying one's superficial fetish for frivolous novelty", why wouldn't this article satisfy this criterion in a general sense? Feser offers an analysis of what he takes to be the moral hazards of the material prosperity, etc of capitalism. If that can't be said to be a topic of interest, then I'm sorry, but IMO, that's an indictment of the accuser, not the article. I read articles on HN every day that are far less substantive or original than this blog post. Plenty of posts are off-topic if we go by the description above. And articles on the subject of capitalism have been featured on the front page just these last two days which is why I thought this article's publication was especially opportune. I don't wish to make accusations, but it's difficult not to suspect prejudice.
    - xupybd 5y ago
      I agree with what you've said but most political content gets flagged here. The few that don't normally have something technology related in them. The comments that go political end up flagged. Then Dang has to jump in to calm everyone down.
      - tablespoon 5y ago
        Honestly, I doubt this was flagged because of politics; it was most likely flagged because of religion. There are not a small number of evangelical atheists here, and probably even more fundamentalist capitalists.