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Most likely because they're off topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most sto

by entuno 3y ago

Most likely because they're off topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, 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. It's important news, and many of people on this site will care deeply about it - but there are plenty of other places that are more suited to discuss it than here.

prakhar897 3y ago
Russia-Ukraine wasn't offtopic?
- smoldesu 3y ago
  Users are the ones who flag things. If they decide something is far-enough off topic, then it will get flagged. It doesn't necessarily follow any deterministic pattern.
- entuno 3y ago
  Did you flag those stories as off topic when they were posted? Volunteer based moderation is never going to be perfectly consistent or reliable - but that fact that it wasn't perfect before doesn't change the posting guidelines. There was an interesting article from Cloudflare posted earlier - but that has a technical angle rather than just being general current affairs.
- bell-cot 3y ago
  Doing a quick HN search for "ukraine", then sorting by Date - stories are actually rather scarce (especially if you ignore ones with an obvious "drone" / "robot" / "cyber" in the title), and upvotes for stories are scarce too. I'll guess that darn few of 'em ever made it to HN's front page. Also noteworthy - the Russia/Ukraine thing is pretty darn new, novel, and has major economic impacts on billions of people (thanks to food & energy prices). Vs. "Israel war" was an ancient trope back when the Fall of Babylon and Edict of Cyrus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Cyrus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Cyrus ) were breaking news.
- mlindner 3y ago
  Russia-Ukraine stories were almost always removed.
  - xchip 3y ago
    It depends

by entuno 3y ago

prakhar897 3y ago

Russia-Ukraine wasn't offtopic?

smoldesu 3y ago
Users are the ones who flag things. If they decide something is far-enough off topic, then it will get flagged. It doesn't necessarily follow any deterministic pattern.
entuno 3y ago
Did you flag those stories as off topic when they were posted? Volunteer based moderation is never going to be perfectly consistent or reliable - but that fact that it wasn't perfect before doesn't change the posting guidelines. There was an interesting article from Cloudflare posted earlier - but that has a technical angle rather than just being general current affairs.
bell-cot 3y ago
Doing a quick HN search for "ukraine", then sorting by Date - stories are actually rather scarce (especially if you ignore ones with an obvious "drone" / "robot" / "cyber" in the title), and upvotes for stories are scarce too. I'll guess that darn few of 'em ever made it to HN's front page. Also noteworthy - the Russia/Ukraine thing is pretty darn new, novel, and has major economic impacts on billions of people (thanks to food & energy prices). Vs. "Israel war" was an ancient trope back when the Fall of Babylon and Edict of Cyrus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Cyrus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Cyrus ) were breaking news.
mlindner 3y ago
Russia-Ukraine stories were almost always removed.
- xchip 3y ago
  It depends