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The HN guidelines are clear about political topics. Is there a change to the guidelines and should we expect you to not override the ranking system for opposin

The HN guidelines are clear about political topics. Is there a change to the guidelines and should we expect you to not override the ranking system for opposing view points.

Snitch-Thursday 4y ago
> The HN guidelines are clear about political topics. I agree with that guideline. I don't want HN in general to devolve into standard tribal mudslinging. But I don't believe this is the standard 'breaking news' chum of the day, mostly because of the reputation of the author, though I readily admit the sensationalist title is click-baity. So far (7 hours after this was first posted) most comments seem to be complaining that the HN users can't flag this away. I found the story interesting, it makes you think about just what the USGov is doing, if it's true or not is somewhat immaterial...the story was an interesting read, whether it was a non-fiction story or not.
- strawpeople 4y ago
  If the story isn’t true, then it isn’t just making you think about what the US government is doing. It’s making you fantasize about it based on an unknown person’s political agenda.
dang 4y ago
The HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) entirely support the moderation call I've made here. If you think otherwise, you might want to take a closer look.* It is neither desirable nor possible to exclude political topics from HN completely. At the same time, it's important that the site be protected from being overrun and dominated by political topics. Lots of explanation of how we handle this can be found at these links, if anyone wants more: 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.... * here's pg making the same point 10 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426
- hef19898 4y ago
  Well, Sandy Hook did happen. And while NS 1 was blown up, besides a repitition of all arguments we had when it was blown up, Hersh's blog post does not provide anything new, does it?
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The HN guidelines are clear about political topics. Is there a change to the guidelines and should we expect you to not override the ranking system for opposing view points.

Snitch-Thursday 4y ago

> The HN guidelines are clear about political topics. I agree with that guideline. I don't want HN in general to devolve into standard tribal mudslinging. But I don't believe this is the standard 'breaking news' chum of the day, mostly because of the reputation of the author, though I readily admit the sensationalist title is click-baity. So far (7 hours after this was first posted) most comments seem to be complaining that the HN users can't flag this away. I found the story interesting, it makes you think about just what the USGov is doing, if it's true or not is somewhat immaterial...the story was an interesting read, whether it was a non-fiction story or not.

strawpeople 4y ago
If the story isn’t true, then it isn’t just making you think about what the US government is doing. It’s making you fantasize about it based on an unknown person’s political agenda.

dang 4y ago

The HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) entirely support the moderation call I've made here. If you think otherwise, you might want to take a closer look.* It is neither desirable nor possible to exclude political topics from HN completely. At the same time, it's important that the site be protected from being overrun and dominated by political topics. Lots of explanation of how we handle this can be found at these links, if anyone wants more: 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.... * here's pg making the same point 10 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426

hef19898 4y ago
Well, Sandy Hook did happen. And while NS 1 was blown up, besides a repitition of all arguments we had when it was blown up, Hersh's blog post does not provide anything new, does it?
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