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What does this have to do with Hacker News? From the guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of som

What does this have to do with Hacker News? From the guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, 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.

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quantumpotato_ 13y ago
News that hackers might be interested in. Considering its page-rank, I'd say the OP succeeded.
danilocampos 13y ago
Keep. Reading. > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.
- foobarbazqux 13y ago
  What are the disadvantages to complaining in the actual thread? I understand about making new submissions for the sake of complaining.
  - vacri 13y ago
    Because it always results in the same exchange of dialogue. If you don't think a post is appropriate, flag it. That does something that might result in action. All commenting does is consume space for nowt.
    - davidw 13y ago
      Commenting also lets people know that a post - like this one - is inappropriate for the site.
      - foobarbazqux 13y ago
        Well, that was my motivation. It's been on the front page for 6 hours now. Obviously the flagging system is broken for popular off-topic submissions. (We are all in agreement that this submission is flagrantly off-topic, right?)
        gverri 13y ago
        No it's not. Don't you think it would be on-topic if this was happening in the USA? I remember very well all the coverage here about the occupy movement. So just because it doesn't affect your ass directly doesn't mean it is off-topic. Edit: Same thing as all the Turkey Riot threads. Did you comment against every one of them?
        davidw 13y ago
        > No it's not. Don't you think it would be on-topic if this was happening in the USA? No. It's about politics, and in the mainstream news.

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quantumpotato_ 13y ago

News that hackers might be interested in. Considering its page-rank, I'd say the OP succeeded.

danilocampos 13y ago

Keep. Reading. > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.

foobarbazqux 13y ago
What are the disadvantages to complaining in the actual thread? I understand about making new submissions for the sake of complaining.
- vacri 13y ago
  Because it always results in the same exchange of dialogue. If you don't think a post is appropriate, flag it. That does something that might result in action. All commenting does is consume space for nowt.
  - davidw 13y ago
    Commenting also lets people know that a post - like this one - is inappropriate for the site.
    - foobarbazqux 13y ago
      Well, that was my motivation. It's been on the front page for 6 hours now. Obviously the flagging system is broken for popular off-topic submissions. (We are all in agreement that this submission is flagrantly off-topic, right?)
      - gverri 13y ago
        No it's not. Don't you think it would be on-topic if this was happening in the USA? I remember very well all the coverage here about the occupy movement. So just because it doesn't affect your ass directly doesn't mean it is off-topic. Edit: Same thing as all the Turkey Riot threads. Did you comment against every one of them?
        davidw 13y ago
        > No it's not. Don't you think it would be on-topic if this was happening in the USA? No. It's about politics, and in the mainstream news.