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There has been one big thread already but it is flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290 Im genuinel

There has been one big thread already but it is flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290 Im genuinely curious why they are getting flagged. Like seriously are IRA members HN moderators or something?

callahad 3y ago
I flagged this. Hacker News doesn't need to be an omnichannel; if other venues will cover this, and cover it well, then it's fine to leave it to them. The Guidelines say much the same: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
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- clipsy 3y ago
  > The Guidelines say much the same: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." "probably"
  - callahad 3y ago
    Indeed. This is important, and I pray Ukraine prevails in the broader conflict. But HN doesn't do well with breaking news, and this submission in particular was of rather poor quality: three sentences and a Telegram embed, all behind a Cloudflare CAPTCHA wall. Not that I'm any arbiter of HN's content, but I'd flag that kind of submission regardless of topic.
- kristianp 3y ago
  However significant global events are often the exception to this rule. Did the russian invasion of Ukraine get a blackout on HN?
  - vba616 3y ago
    Everything is an exception to the rule! There is nothing so contrary to the Guidelines that it won't show up. I see "Taboola" items on the default Microsoft front page of Edge and they appear on HN. I grant that the worst of it comes in waves, but I just do not see this place as remotely being what it aspires to be. Whatever conspiratorial activity exists at the moment on HN is clearly devoted to the silly accusations of censorship. Any real geopolitical events will continue tomorrow and be widely reported on all over the world.
gettodachoppa 3y ago
I just flagged this. First time I ever flag something on HN. When I try to access it I get: "Sorry, you have been blocked. You are unable to access censor.net. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data." But I totally understand people who flag political articles. It turns HN into reddit. I actually wish I had the discipline not to click them, because I end up seeing the typical infuriating neo-lib HN comments and I can't help but reply. What's wrong with wanting HN not to have politics and keep a tech/education focus? Every other social media on the Internet is packed to the brim with political content, we can go literally anywhere else if we want that. (And please don't answer "being apolitical is being political" or "oh, look at the privileged fatcat who can afford to be apolitical" that's just the sort of lib cliches that annoy me)

callahad 3y ago

I flagged this. Hacker News doesn't need to be an omnichannel; if other venues will cover this, and cover it well, then it's fine to leave it to them. The Guidelines say much the same: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

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clipsy 3y ago
> The Guidelines say much the same: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." "probably"
- callahad 3y ago
  Indeed. This is important, and I pray Ukraine prevails in the broader conflict. But HN doesn't do well with breaking news, and this submission in particular was of rather poor quality: three sentences and a Telegram embed, all behind a Cloudflare CAPTCHA wall. Not that I'm any arbiter of HN's content, but I'd flag that kind of submission regardless of topic.
kristianp 3y ago
However significant global events are often the exception to this rule. Did the russian invasion of Ukraine get a blackout on HN?
- vba616 3y ago
  Everything is an exception to the rule! There is nothing so contrary to the Guidelines that it won't show up. I see "Taboola" items on the default Microsoft front page of Edge and they appear on HN. I grant that the worst of it comes in waves, but I just do not see this place as remotely being what it aspires to be. Whatever conspiratorial activity exists at the moment on HN is clearly devoted to the silly accusations of censorship. Any real geopolitical events will continue tomorrow and be widely reported on all over the world.

gettodachoppa 3y ago

I just flagged this. First time I ever flag something on HN. When I try to access it I get: "Sorry, you have been blocked. You are unable to access censor.net. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data." But I totally understand people who flag political articles. It turns HN into reddit. I actually wish I had the discipline not to click them, because I end up seeing the typical infuriating neo-lib HN comments and I can't help but reply. What's wrong with wanting HN not to have politics and keep a tech/education focus? Every other social media on the Internet is packed to the brim with political content, we can go literally anywhere else if we want that. (And please don't answer "being apolitical is being political" or "oh, look at the privileged fatcat who can afford to be apolitical" that's just the sort of lib cliches that annoy me)