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"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Yet the story about the NBA executiv

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Yet the story about the NBA executive stealing money fails all three strikes and it's at 120 points and going strong...

dang 7y ago
I don't know if it's a new phenomenon but there's enough interesting detail in that story to make it on topic for HN, in my opinion, plus the thread quality supports that interpretation. Of course these are all judgment calls. Prince Andrew on Epstein is guaranteed to produce a flamewar, especially because it overlaps with the celebrity gossip genre. Epstein stories have been discussed in detail on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=epstein%20points%3E10&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), and "royal denies wrongdoing" is not significant new information: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22significant%20new%20information%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- sahin-boydas 7y ago
  You have 100% bias here. This video pretty is interesting. It reached 700k views in youtube in very short time. It is also very unique. Maybe it is not interesting to a fan of Epstein. The interview has elements that no interview until now has. Ex watch btw 19-25:00. They are way less non interesting links about Epstein that you didnt flag. 2) Also u block this video way faster than you can watch the whole interview. Did you watch the full interview before flag this link? Without watching the whole interview how you can decide it is not good enough. Just leave it to the hn community . unflag the video lets see how community responds...
  - dang 7y ago
    If YouTube views mattered here, Pewdiepie would be on the front page. Please read the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
    - sahin-boydas 7y ago
      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. Daniel,and yet this interview is the new evidence. And this interview has more interesting parts than many articles that were posted in HN about this subject.
      - tomhoward 7y ago
        “Interesting new phenomenon”, not “new evidence [in a mainstream news story about a celebrity scandal]”. They’re very different concepts. Dang isn’t saying it’s not a big/important story; it’s just not on-topic for HN. The guidelines are clear and long-established on that. There’s the whole rest of the internet for discussing mainstream news scandals.
- sahin-boydas 7y ago
  3) you also have a habit & pattern of limiting my posting in a short time after u uplift my limit after i submit any controversial topic which is less than 1 of 10 of my postings.

dang 7y ago

I don't know if it's a new phenomenon but there's enough interesting detail in that story to make it on topic for HN, in my opinion, plus the thread quality supports that interpretation. Of course these are all judgment calls. Prince Andrew on Epstein is guaranteed to produce a flamewar, especially because it overlaps with the celebrity gossip genre. Epstein stories have been discussed in detail on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=epstein%20points%3E10&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), and "royal denies wrongdoing" is not significant new information: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22significant%20new%20information%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

sahin-boydas 7y ago
You have 100% bias here. This video pretty is interesting. It reached 700k views in youtube in very short time. It is also very unique. Maybe it is not interesting to a fan of Epstein. The interview has elements that no interview until now has. Ex watch btw 19-25:00. They are way less non interesting links about Epstein that you didnt flag. 2) Also u block this video way faster than you can watch the whole interview. Did you watch the full interview before flag this link? Without watching the whole interview how you can decide it is not good enough. Just leave it to the hn community . unflag the video lets see how community responds...
- dang 7y ago
  If YouTube views mattered here, Pewdiepie would be on the front page. Please read the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
  - sahin-boydas 7y ago
    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. Daniel,and yet this interview is the new evidence. And this interview has more interesting parts than many articles that were posted in HN about this subject.
    - tomhoward 7y ago
      “Interesting new phenomenon”, not “new evidence [in a mainstream news story about a celebrity scandal]”. They’re very different concepts. Dang isn’t saying it’s not a big/important story; it’s just not on-topic for HN. The guidelines are clear and long-established on that. There’s the whole rest of the internet for discussing mainstream news scandals.
sahin-boydas 7y ago
3) you also have a habit & pattern of limiting my posting in a short time after u uplift my limit after i submit any controversial topic which is less than 1 of 10 of my postings.