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Good thing there's no such rule.

by slater 2y ago

zahlman 2y ago
> 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. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. Most of what I've been seeing since November 2024 is not at all what I'd call insightful. It generally reads like complaining about how the usual suspects did some outrageous (read: not to the ideological taste of the submitter or commenter; sometimes there is at least an implied argument about social or environmental impact of a policy) thing.
- dang 2y ago
  As pg put it many years ago, note those words most and probably (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426). The basic point is that not all political stories are off topic. Most are, but having some stories with political overlap is in keeping with HN's mandate as long as there aren't too many of them. Here are a couple posts, one recent and one older, where I tried to explain how we approach this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614703 (Jan 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 (Nov 2019) I've been writing a lot of these lately - here's a few more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43111620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43111620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 There should be more than enough information at those links to answer everyone's questions about this, but if anyone has a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

Good thing there's no such rule.

by slater 2y ago

Good thing there's no such rule.

> 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. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. Most of what I've been seeing since November 2024 is not at all what I'd call insightful. It generally reads like complaining about how the usual suspects did some outrageous (read: not to the ideological taste of the submitter or commenter; sometimes there is at least an implied argument about social or environmental impact of a policy) thing.

dang 2y ago
As pg put it many years ago, note those words most and probably (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426). The basic point is that not all political stories are off topic. Most are, but having some stories with political overlap is in keeping with HN's mandate as long as there aren't too many of them. Here are a couple posts, one recent and one older, where I tried to explain how we approach this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614703 (Jan 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 (Nov 2019) I've been writing a lot of these lately - here's a few more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43111620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43111620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 There should be more than enough information at those links to answer everyone's questions about this, but if anyone has a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.