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Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
- gnabgib 1y agoPreviously (106 points, 4 hours ago, 77 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192
- ChrisArchitect 1y ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192
- hollywood_court 1y agoWhy is this post being flagged?
- jacquesm 1y agoBecause HN can't be seen to discuss the military take-over of the seat of government of one of the most powerful countries on earth. It would be unseemly. The coup will not only not be televised, it won't even be discussed.
- Redoubts 1y agoIt’s more likely that users are flagging these posts because of the Reddit-tier commentary
- krapp 1y agoMost of the commentary on this forum approaches Reddit-tier. People will flag political content because it's political, and for no other reaon.
- IAmGraydon 1y agoThe discourse on HN has always been held to a much higher standard than Reddit, and the unfortunate truth is that if we want to maintain HN as a center of intelligent conversation, we have to often flag the topics that lead us away from it. I'm not saying every political thread should be flagged, but I think most of them should be.
- krapp 1y agoThe pretense is that the discourse on HN has always been held to a much higher standard than Reddit, primarily by comparing the worst of Reddit with the best of HN, which is specious. If you compare the average comment of HN to the average comment of any programming subreddit, the only real difference is that humor tends to be verboten on HN. But that comes at a cost of increased performative cynicism and rancor.
- IAmGraydon 1y agoYou've been here since 2012 and are an active contributor. You really believe that the quality of discourse is the same as Reddit on average? Maybe you don't spend enough time on Reddit. It is literally a cesspool of humanity. Hacker News has little in common with it.
- krapp 1y ago
- db48x 1y agoBecause it’s off topic. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, 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.
- Sabinus 1y agoThe Hulk Hogan and Pope dying stories aren't flagged. Hell, the Hulk Hogan was unflagged. The leader of the most powerful democracy on earth doing authoritarian actions and eroding norms is worth discussion.
- db48x 1y agoIt's worth discussing, but do it elsewhere. Use a different forum, one where it is on topic.
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- tomhow 1y ago> Hell, the Hulk Hogan was unflagged That story spent all of 9 minutes on the front page. Turning off flags is separate to restoring to the front page, and we don't think it's a good look to have a [flagged] tag on any bereavement post, no matter who the deceased is.