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You are right, it's unfair because there is no strong evidence to make that assertion. I don't mind about what are your personal political affiliations or symp

by nomdep 3y ago

You are right, it's unfair because there is no strong evidence to make that assertion. I don't mind about what are your personal political affiliations or sympathies, however, I still maintain that this topic is textbook against the guidelines, and because of that I'm still afraid we will see post against candidate X in the front page in a few months. Time will tell.

dang 3y ago
That's a common misunderstanding of HN's guidelines; what they say is that most stories about politics are off-topic, and of course most != all. This has been the case for a long time—see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426 for example, or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 for tons of other examples. The question of how/where to draw the line is tough, but it's also one that we arrived at a relatively stable answer to a long time ago. I've written about this a bunch: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... I'm not saying we always make the right call—we don't, and anyhow people always disagree about what the right call is. But the underlying principles are at least pretty clear.