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> > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Most. > > Please
by squigz 2y ago
> > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Most.
> > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
Personally, I don't really consider an article talking about threats to democratic societies as a political or ideological battle. I suppose I can see why some people would though.
> I see no evidence that discussion on this article will evolve to be better than discussion on most political submissions, so I see no reason for it to remain on the front page.
Several comments on this thread, and many discussions on many political posts in the past, seem to indicate that political discussions on this site are constructive.
> It's exhausting to have to read titles like this and filter it myself
As an aside, isn't it more exhausting to go and flag it then? (Leaving alone that reading an article title is, you know, not very difficult)
- lolinder 2y agoNah, flagging and hiding are just a button press away. Coming into the article and commenting on it in response to people wondering why it got flagged is harder, but I feel like I owe it to the rest of the community to explain that there are flaggers who aren't Trump fans and just have strong opinions about what should and shouldn't go on HN.
- squigz 2y agoI find it notable that you have submitted several political posts yourself, including some writing on fascism by Orwell.
- lolinder 2y agoThe Orwell article isn't really about fascism, it's about the word fascism. I just found it interesting that it was already a meaningless slur by the 1940s. I'll grant that I have posted political articles, mostly those that offer alternate perspectives to those offered by recent political articles that stayed on the front page. As you say, "most" are off-topic, and I have no problem with people disagreeing with me about which ones are and aren't. If that disagreement leads to almost all politics being purged, that's probably for the best.