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Why has this been flagged?

sky2224 1y ago
As much as I'd also appreciate a discussion on something like this, it's heavily political and HN isn't really the place for that unless it's directly related to tech.
- deleted 1y ago
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- VikingCoder 1y ago
  Censorship affects everyone. Like, literally, your ability to understand the world around you. If that's not "tech," then I think folks need to broaden their perspective.
  - neom 1y ago
    A good read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267159
  - sky2224 1y ago
    I agree, but I'm basing this on HackerNews' own guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html My explanation was a little bit narrow by mentioning tech though, that just happens to be the general thing shared most of the time.
  - appreciatorBus 1y ago
    There are plenty places that aren’t HN to discuss politics. Since everything is connected to everything else, by your logic, every discussion forum must discuss everything. If you prefer more open-ended discussions about everything, I would suggest trying Twitter or Bluesky .
    - peterashford 1y ago
      You could choose to just skip the topic?
      - appreciatorBus 1y ago
        Sure but if that is a reasonable solution, why even bother with distinct forums like HN? Just subsume every UGC site into something like a single global Usenet like group called “general” with the expectation that every user is responsible for fine tuning their own personal filters to their liking. Having different sites focussed on different topics is very useful to people, and I don’t think the world would be better if we got rid of it.
Freedom2 1y ago
It won't really spur the curious discussion this forum is known and loved for.
tomhow 1y ago
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's probably fatigue over this general topic, a belief that it doesn't fit within the guidelines for on-topic content, and an expectation that it will lead to another flamewar. All those concerns are valid but we've turned off the flags now.

As much as I'd also appreciate a discussion on something like this, it's heavily political and HN isn't really the place for that unless it's directly related to tech.

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VikingCoder 1y ago
Censorship affects everyone. Like, literally, your ability to understand the world around you. If that's not "tech," then I think folks need to broaden their perspective.
- neom 1y ago
  A good read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267159
- sky2224 1y ago
  I agree, but I'm basing this on HackerNews' own guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html My explanation was a little bit narrow by mentioning tech though, that just happens to be the general thing shared most of the time.
- appreciatorBus 1y ago
  There are plenty places that aren’t HN to discuss politics. Since everything is connected to everything else, by your logic, every discussion forum must discuss everything. If you prefer more open-ended discussions about everything, I would suggest trying Twitter or Bluesky .
  - peterashford 1y ago
    You could choose to just skip the topic?
    - appreciatorBus 1y ago
      Sure but if that is a reasonable solution, why even bother with distinct forums like HN? Just subsume every UGC site into something like a single global Usenet like group called “general” with the expectation that every user is responsible for fine tuning their own personal filters to their liking. Having different sites focussed on different topics is very useful to people, and I don’t think the world would be better if we got rid of it.

Freedom2 1y ago

It won't really spur the curious discussion this forum is known and loved for.

tomhow 1y ago

Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's probably fatigue over this general topic, a belief that it doesn't fit within the guidelines for on-topic content, and an expectation that it will lead to another flamewar. All those concerns are valid but we've turned off the flags now.