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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sport
by joshka 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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.
- rektide 4y agoAlso though, On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. This isnt just politics. This is a nuanced & complex view of the world. This is anthropoly that happens to involve poltitics. The anti-anything-at-all-political bias is way out of control, utterly unchecked, and absurd. [Ed: Im ok with this particular flagging, but it makes me so sad that some of the biggest & widest & most impactful parts of our world are off limits to discussion.]
- joshcsimmons 4y agoGood hacker - obeying and citing rules.
- helloworld11 4y agoSimply bullshit. It got flagged because it didn't fit a certain hive mind narrative I already mentioned. Top posts on HN routinely feature politics of all kinds, much of it quite ordinary or banal and far from touching upon some "interesting new phenomenon". Given how little is actually described (and with decent photos no less, accompanied by an in-person narrative) about conservative rallies, I'd say this post fit the bill just fine.