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Not really. The fact that "Off-Topic" is even necessary shows that "On-Topic" is not particularly clear. Different people find different things interesting and
by lapcat 4y ago
Not really. The fact that "Off-Topic" is even necessary shows that "On-Topic" is not particularly clear. Different people find different things interesting and have their intellectual curiousity gratified in different ways. And a lot of stuff appears unflagged on HN that falls between the two categories.
You seem to have this personal weird exception to the guidelines, which is "Please submit the original source... unless it's a corporate press release." ;-) But you still allow meta-links about corporate press releases, which may put the PR in larger perspective but don't otherwise clearly gratify intellectual curiosity.
- dang 4y agoOf course people find different things intellectually interesting, but a site dedicated to intellectual interest is still a completely different thing than general news. I'll diss the corporate press release any day! Beyond that I'm not sure I follow your specific point. What do you think we should do differently?
- lapcat 4y ago> Beyond that I'm not sure I follow your specific point. The question is why HN allows a meta-link about a corporate PR (for example, a Verge story about the PR, since you don't like the direct link) but not something like this? Why is "Corporation X announces Y" intellectually interesting, but this isn't? Anyway, if this submission remains flagged, then this newer one should be flagged too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35063232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35063232
- dang 4y agoIf by "this" you mean today's Elon drama, I've already answered that at length: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35061369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35061369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35061343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35061343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060863