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Can we have this thread back and make it strictly technical?

• dredmorbius 2y ago
  Email mods at hn@ycombinator.com if you see a pervasive violation of HN's comment guidelines. Flagging and voting also help, but for wildly out-of-control threads, direct contact is more reliable.
• rsync 2y ago
  No. The discussion should meander in any direction the votes and scoring allow it to. If the voting supports it, it is on topic ipso facto.
  • robot_no_421 2y ago
    Not at all, that's why we have moderators. Hacker news is interesting because they stay focused on the right topics. If you let people just talk about whatever they want, you're just gonna get an inferior Reddit. Topic != "Whatever we want to talk about", the topic is very often the technical and technological aspects of a story or article. Talking about politics on HN is definitely "off topic".
• giraffe_lady 2y ago
  Love to consider only the technical aspect of terrorist attacks that's what makes this News for Hackers yes.