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Substantive stories are allowed on HN - therefore it's not against the site guidelines, unless you think genocide/war crime charges being levied against Israel
by loceng 2y ago
Substantive stories are allowed on HN - therefore it's not against the site guidelines, unless you think genocide/war crime charges being levied against Israel and Hamas' leaders is common run-of-the-mill, not once-in-a-lifetime politics?
- nataliste 2y ago>Substantive stories are allowed on HN - therefore it's not against the site guidelines, unless you think [...] is common run-of-the-mill, not once-in-a-lifetime politics? This is the rhetorical frame that has been used for the last decade to justify diluting topical spaces with thinly veiled culture warring by the extremely online for whom every new media cycle is another entirely new Armageddon. I respectfully disagree with the notion that every current outrage or controversy should be treated as the paramount issue necessitating everyone's unquestioning attention in unrelated spaces.
- sangnoir 2y agoParticipation in culture war skirmishes is not mandatory - I don't read the vast majority of links or discussions posted to HN. Ironically, preemptively preventing any discussion on topics you don't like on ideological grounds, by means of flagging is partaking in the culture wars.
- ipaddr 2y agoYes it's common unimportant news that ranks below the people that were murdered in Afghanistan by a terrorist attack.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoPolitics is considered off-topic, by the site guidelines.
- dang 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoTrue. Still, I'm trying to explain why a post like this would get flagged. I am not intending to insist that it must be flagged.