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When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different

halfmatthalfcat 2y ago
We need our safe space.
echoangle 2y ago
Isn’t that kind of on purpose though? I think you will get flagged if you just post general news articles. It looks like political posts are only accepted if they have some relation to technology.
latexr 2y ago
It’s not a secret HN is not a site for general news. That’s the first item in the guidelines: > What to Submit > (…) > 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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It is because you’d hear about that anywhere and everywhere else that it doesn’t belong here. Would you complain that a forum about cooking or sharing wallpapers didn’t cover the news as well? Though it was submitted and discussed anyway, which always happens. That can be confirmed with your own keywords. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=trump%20attempted%20assassination&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
j45 2y ago
There do seem to be posts. I’m not sure of the activity level of HN at the time it occurred. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=trump&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
throwaway3306a 2y ago
That's why I come here instead of other places.
orwin 2y ago
I wouldn't mind reading about it here in like 2 weeks to a month tbh, but clearly I don't come here to read 'worldly news'.
xigoi 2y ago
I’m glad that my attempts at removing USA politics from my content feeds have been so successful that this is the first time I hear about the Trump assassination attempt.

halfmatthalfcat 2y ago

We need our safe space.

echoangle 2y ago

Isn’t that kind of on purpose though? I think you will get flagged if you just post general news articles. It looks like political posts are only accepted if they have some relation to technology.

latexr 2y ago

It’s not a secret HN is not a site for general news. That’s the first item in the guidelines: > What to Submit > (…) > 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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It is because you’d hear about that anywhere and everywhere else that it doesn’t belong here. Would you complain that a forum about cooking or sharing wallpapers didn’t cover the news as well? Though it was submitted and discussed anyway, which always happens. That can be confirmed with your own keywords. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=trump%20attempted%20assassination&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

j45 2y ago

There do seem to be posts. I’m not sure of the activity level of HN at the time it occurred. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=trump&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

throwaway3306a 2y ago

That's why I come here instead of other places.

orwin 2y ago

I wouldn't mind reading about it here in like 2 weeks to a month tbh, but clearly I don't come here to read 'worldly news'.

xigoi 2y ago

I’m glad that my attempts at removing USA politics from my content feeds have been so successful that this is the first time I hear about the Trump assassination attempt.