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Before flagging, please consider how this act has not been invoked since WW2. Therefore it is a novel and worthy of discussion, regardless of how "not technolog
by tomohelix 2y ago
Before flagging, please consider how this act has not been invoked since WW2. Therefore it is a novel and worthy of discussion, regardless of how "not technology related" it is.
- pvg 2y agoThese don’t get flagged because they aren’t “technology related”
- tomohelix 2y agoI think the common reasons are: Not worthy of HN discussion; (claimed to) likely to devolve into unrelated/heated arguments, and against HN rules. Just that I don't agree this topic fit in any of those categories, so just want to state it first.
- suraci 2y agoFrom my observation, the only topic that will definitely be flagged before any discussions is genocide in Gaza…
- clipsy 2y agoI think you're being very generous in your beliefs about why people flag these sort of stories.
- pvg 2y agoI mean, it trivially fits a number of them but a really big one is 'repetition'. Various political and other not-entirely-HN-on-topic stories end up on the front page and have threads but these are exceptions for particularly unusual or big ones. An administration that engages in daily shitposting-through-executive-order gets a couple of these for novelty but the novelty has long worn off - you'd have to fill HN with them if they all counted as exceptional. Of course, if you think this one deserves special treatment, the thing to do is email hn@ycombinator.com and ask for flags to be taken off. I think in this case it's a little uphill (as another toplevel comment points out - the news has already overtaken this thing) and you'd probably need to find some sort of third party reporting rather than the government press release.