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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 Guid
by 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 agoIndeed. 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 agoHowever significant global events are often the exception to this rule. Did the russian invasion of Ukraine get a blackout on HN?
- vba616 3y agoEverything 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.