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HN isn't the right place for this discussion and that is made explicitly clear in the Guidelines [1] : > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or s

by oska 2y ago

HN isn't the right place for this discussion and that is made explicitly clear in the Guidelines [1] : > 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. I'm here browsing the thread out of curiosity but I'm also onboard with it being flagged. There's not going to be any shortage of other places to discuss this (historic) event. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ImJamal 2y ago
Seems kind of weird since the Japanese guy (president or prime minister or whatever) getting assassinated didn't get flagged.
- skissane 2y ago
  From memory, it actually did get flagged, but then dang made a judgement call to manually unflag it
skissane 2y ago
In the past, dang has occasionally allowed mainstream politics stories on the grounds that they are major historical events. That's why he allowed the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister. I think the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is an event of a similar nature.
- oska 2y ago
  I'm obviously not speaking for dang (or for anyone who flagged the thread) but a successful assassination is on a different level to an attempted assassination. I think younger people are mostly all aware of the assassination of JFK in 1963 but probably lots are not aware that there was an attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981 (which also came close to succeeding; closer even than this recent event). That's because the attempted assassination of Reagan had far less contemporary and historical impact than the successful assassination of JFK. If the attempt on Trump's life had been successful a thread probably would stay up (my guess only). That's because there would have been HN on-topic things for us all to consider after such an event, including possible further crackdowns on internet privacy, further restrictions on free movement, free speech, etc.
  - skissane 2y ago
    dang has spoken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963142 He would have unflagged it manually, because in his view it is significant enough a political story to be discussed here. The reason he didn't was he was away and so didn't know about the story or its flagging. He has manually unflagged it now
aaron695 2y ago
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mvdtnz 2y ago
HN has often allowed important news stories about Trump. Some of the most popular ones include his inauguration (2,215 comments), Facebook's suspension of Trump (1,293 comments), his first electoral victory (1,708 comments) ands his firing of FBI director Comey (297 comments). Does his assassination attempt not rise to this level?
swat535 2y ago
Why are you onboard with it being flagged? I think this event is very well worth discussing. I constantly see a steady stream of political news here, including Israel and Gaza.

by oska 2y ago

ImJamal 2y ago

Seems kind of weird since the Japanese guy (president or prime minister or whatever) getting assassinated didn't get flagged.

skissane 2y ago
From memory, it actually did get flagged, but then dang made a judgement call to manually unflag it

skissane 2y ago

In the past, dang has occasionally allowed mainstream politics stories on the grounds that they are major historical events. That's why he allowed the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister. I think the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is an event of a similar nature.

oska 2y ago
I'm obviously not speaking for dang (or for anyone who flagged the thread) but a successful assassination is on a different level to an attempted assassination. I think younger people are mostly all aware of the assassination of JFK in 1963 but probably lots are not aware that there was an attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981 (which also came close to succeeding; closer even than this recent event). That's because the attempted assassination of Reagan had far less contemporary and historical impact than the successful assassination of JFK. If the attempt on Trump's life had been successful a thread probably would stay up (my guess only). That's because there would have been HN on-topic things for us all to consider after such an event, including possible further crackdowns on internet privacy, further restrictions on free movement, free speech, etc.
- skissane 2y ago
  dang has spoken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963142 He would have unflagged it manually, because in his view it is significant enough a political story to be discussed here. The reason he didn't was he was away and so didn't know about the story or its flagging. He has manually unflagged it now

aaron695 2y ago

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mvdtnz 2y ago

HN has often allowed important news stories about Trump. Some of the most popular ones include his inauguration (2,215 comments), Facebook's suspension of Trump (1,293 comments), his first electoral victory (1,708 comments) ands his firing of FBI director Comey (297 comments). Does his assassination attempt not rise to this level?

swat535 2y ago

Why are you onboard with it being flagged? I think this event is very well worth discussing. I constantly see a steady stream of political news here, including Israel and Gaza.