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Can somebody please answer the first question "What counts as a political post?" - Is "Snowden" = politics? - Is "NSA" = politics? - Is "War machine" = polit
by northwest 13y ago
Can somebody please answer the first question "What counts as a political post?"
- Is "Snowden" = politics?
- Is "NSA" = politics?
- Is "War machine" = politics?
- Is "Poverty" = politics?
- Is "Unemployment" = politics?
Let's first try to see if "everybody" has the same definition.
Then "HN management" can update their manifest so we actually do have a tangible result after this discussion.
EDIT: As of now, we still don't have an agreed-on definition for what counts as "a political post". Or am I taking this discussion too seriously? Please downvote if you feel it was a bad idea I signed up on this site, I'd like to know...
- Patient0 13y agoThe answer is "Yes" to all of these, IMO
- Wilya 13y agoRule of thumb: if you can quote Obama's point of view on something, it's probably politics. (food would be a false positive, I suppose, but you wouldn't get so many other errors)
- bnegreve 13y agoFun fact: Obama also has an opinion on bubble sort. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4RRi_ntQc8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4RRi_ntQc8
- sublimit 13y agoAll of those are, obviously. Don't try to avert the issue by redefining words.
- northwest 13y agoAll I'm asking for is a definition from as many readers as possible, because that's where a discussion is supposed to start. The (until this moment, at least) lack of a collection of definitions is actually horrifying, for me. If we had a collection of definitions, you'd be surprised how different they all are (personally, I don't agree at all that "political post" can be defined by a list of words). Yet here we are, talking about something we haven't even clearly defined, yet.