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There is no rule against political content so instead of trying to censor an allowed topic because of your own believes you can just scroll past it.

bennysonething 4y ago
Hi, I'd say that's a pretty loose reading if the posting rules. Here's part of them: 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.
- theCrowing 4y ago
  [flagged]
  - bennysonething 4y ago
    That isn't exactly a well reasoned response. It doesn't add anything. It's just deflective personal attack.
- nickthegreek 4y ago
  Flag it or don’t click it. Your appeal to have others not submit/not upvote content you don’t find interesting will fall on deaf ears.
dang 4y ago
It's a bit more complex than that. You're right that political content isn't excluded completely, but it also needs to be moderated a lot more, because otherwise the site would be taken over by political content, and also because politicized threads tend to break the site guidelines very quickly: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If anyone wants to know how we approach this, 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... leads to a bunch of past explanations, though you have to scroll through some boilerplate to find them. Just look for the longer, older posts.

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There is no rule against political content so instead of trying to censor an allowed topic because of your own believes you can just scroll past it.

by theCrowing 4y ago

bennysonething 4y ago
Hi, I'd say that's a pretty loose reading if the posting rules. Here's part of them: 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.
- theCrowing 4y ago
  [flagged]
  - bennysonething 4y ago
    That isn't exactly a well reasoned response. It doesn't add anything. It's just deflective personal attack.
- nickthegreek 4y ago
  Flag it or don’t click it. Your appeal to have others not submit/not upvote content you don’t find interesting will fall on deaf ears.
dang 4y ago
It's a bit more complex than that. You're right that political content isn't excluded completely, but it also needs to be moderated a lot more, because otherwise the site would be taken over by political content, and also because politicized threads tend to break the site guidelines very quickly: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If anyone wants to know how we approach this, 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... leads to a bunch of past explanations, though you have to scroll through some boilerplate to find them. Just look for the longer, older posts.