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It's political news: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics,
by tansey 6y ago
It's political news: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"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."
- dvtrn 6y agoI wish this ‘guideline’ or any guideline would attempt to even define what the moderation team considers to be ‘political’ because it seems like the community itself cannot agree on a universal-enough term that would apply to the types of discussions where politics and technology may intersect.