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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