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This never should have gotten to the top of HN. This paper is basically the NY Post but Irish, and this story is Facebook-feed-trolling outrage porn. @dang can
by 0xbadcafebee 4y ago
This never should have gotten to the top of HN. This paper is basically the NY Post but Irish, and this story is Facebook-feed-trolling outrage porn. @dang can you please push this off front page?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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.
We should add to the off-topic section: If it would feature prominently in a tabloid.
- kelnos 4y agoAlso in the guidelines you quote: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. So perhaps don't cherry-pick which guidelines should be followed? Please just flag the article and move on; no need to comment. Also: > Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com. Your post is better served as an email.
- the_only_law 4y agoIf you can’t beat them, join them.