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haunter 9 hours ago

Doesn’t mean anything when even one of the first rule is not enforced at all

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

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minimaxir 9 hours ago | parent [-]

"Most" is not "All". Hacker News has always had an exception for extremely significant politics.

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Karrot_Kream 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My bar for "extremely significant" is much higher than it appears to be here. Apparently most events in the US/Iran involvement is "extremely significant" if we judge the votes on this site to offer guidance on how this rule is interpreted.

This forum was founded in 2007. The US was very much involved in Iraq and Afghanistan at that time. If the same bar for coverage was in place at the time, HN would have been flooded with US Military content the way it is now. So yeah, obviously the bar has moved lower for this particular matter and it's because the current community on the site wants it to. Likewise the "generated/AI-edited comments" guideline seems equally squishy to me. And despite a rule about being "curmudgeonly", I'm pretty sure 80% of this site's content is curmudgeonly rants.

IMO at this scale dang, tomhow, and other mods need to be much stricter. When HN was 1/10 the size a shaming comment would often set a poster in place. Now they just sneer back in another comment and post 20 other guideline breaking things.

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haunter 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well it’s up to interpretation

“most”

“extremely significant”

What’s extremely significant for someone is an offtopic for someone else and vice versa

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minimaxir 9 hours ago | parent [-]

What are examples of highly-upvoted political stories on HN that you think are not appropriate for the HN community?

	▲	zahlman 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My experience has been that the large majority of political content posted here is (at least apparently) mainly here so that people (who are mostly in mutual agreement) can post about how they dislike some political entity or another. I would like to see much less of this on HN personally; it's not insightful and does not promote curiousity.
	▲	haunter 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		US domestic politics I won't give you examples because all of them can be spinned about being relevant "Well HN is an american site after all" "Most of the HN users are american voters so it's relevant for them" "Hackers need to be aware of what's happening in the world" "You only say that because you disagree with that side" etc Same with the stories about Tesla flagged. If you read the comments it's always the same: "Pro-Tesla crowd is flagging everything negative about Elon so the bad news never reach the front page" vs "Anti-Tesla crowd flagging everything because they hate Elon" HN is the best without politics. But it's not up to me.