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Per the HN guidelines the rules for the site are whatever hackers find interesting
by nailer 2y ago
Per the HN guidelines the rules for the site are whatever hackers find interesting
- sidcool 2y agoDang has flagged it.
- WithinReason 2y agoNo he didn't.
- caminante 2y agoNeed to refresh.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 2y agoDang doesn't flag stuff. He can just kill them if he decides to. It was flagged by OP and probably others.
- caminante 2y agoYou're right. Dang said as much in the mega thread[0] [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017129 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017129
- caminante 2y agoRe-read it. It may've changed since you last read, but general politics is off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- romanhn 2y agoThis thread would disagree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967
- caminante 2y agoThe presence of that thread disagrees with which point? Please re-read this sub-thread.
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- slater 2y ago"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics" Note, most. Not all. Big stories such as these are, I'd say, on-topic.
- caminante 2y agoYes. Who's arguing with you?
- nailer 2y agoYou are. We can see this earlier in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41026902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41026902
- caminante 2y agoYou made a blanket statement that wasn't reflective of the HN guidelines. That nuance was lost on you then. And my nuance about general politics was lost on you, also. Existence of exceptions is implied in my comment.
- slater 2y agoIt was unclear from your post whether you were agreeing or disagreeing as to whether this was "general politics" or not.
- daseiner1 2y ago“Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, *unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon*” Emphasis mine. This is not a “general politics” story and almost certainly qualifies as an “interesting new phenomenon”.
- caminante 2y ago> This is not a “general politics” story Who's arguing that it is?
- daseiner1 2y agoAre you being daft? You arrogantly told someone to “read the policy”, presuming they haven’t. And you stated that general politics are not allowed under the submissions policy. I’m pointing out that this is far from general. I think I’ve been quite clear.
- caminante 2y agoYou didn't answer my question. >And you stated that general politics are not allowed under the submissions policy. It's what the policy says. There's on-topic and off-topic with exceptions. Blanket statements about what "good hackers find interesting" is a partial representation of the policy. > I’m pointing out that this is far from general. Going back to you NOT answering my question, I'm not saying this is "general" either. Obviously, you didn't read the whole thread.
- tzs 2y agoYou? Generally discussion works best around here when each participant only has to explain their own points. If people have to explain your own points to you it makes discussion kind of hard.
- caminante 2y agoAnd making points for someone else that they didn't make is also not productive for "discussion work[ing] best." Explaining that the HN Guidelines has off-topic railings (with exceptions) too isn't saying that a tweet about POTUS resigning isn't a valid exception. I guess people are on tilt because of the announcement.
- GeoAtreides 2y agoThat's definitely not true. The moderators can flag, delete or promote posts as they seem fit, without any transparency. And of course there are some users that have the flag button which is a super-downvote button (more like downvote and remove). The community has some input, true, but not as much as on reddit, definitely not as much as on 4chan.