Ask HN: Why are threads about the Major Event today being shadow-banned?

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I get that this is not a technical thing, but neither was the highly-discussed article on drug legalization:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330587

I believe there was a thread on the U.S. and Paris attacks. Is there a reason that there isn't one on this attack?

From the HN Guidelines[1]: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Thus, lots of users are probably flagging these articles as off-topic. Also, many, many duplicate articles about this have been submitted, so those are getting flagged as dupes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What is the Major Event?

There was a terrorist bombing in Brussels:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/isis-claims-r...

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