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Odd. I posted this same essential news story on the day it occurred only to have it flagged for no apparent reason, despite being major news about a famous figu

• AndrewKemendo 2y ago
  It’s not odd if you consider that hacker news is not really the place with that kind of discussion generally If you’ve been around long enough, you’ll see that massive topics like that are intentionally kept off the front page for a while so that it doesn’t overwhelm everyone Frankly, I’m glad that’s the policy because Reddit (and I assume all other media) yesterday was just completely covered top to bottom in the story
  • Ylpertnodi 2y ago
    As a regular reddit trawler, i was quite happily surprised at how little there actually was.
  • 00_hum 2y ago
    im sure the same standard would apply if some other huge political news broke… like biden resigning. oh wait