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Might not be the intention but I can see merit in flagging stories with a strong political overtone simply to make the point that this isn't /r/politics -- that that stuff over there.

In fact, if that's the rationale I support it... though it would be good to know what the current rule of thumb is in order to play along.

	▲	p_ing 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You need to decide for yourself what crosses the unacceptable content line and what does not. HN only provides the following guideline: > 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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html