Austrian far-right presidential hopeful soundly defeated

Not on topic for Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Since HN has been on a political binge just like everybody else has, we're going to do what some people do after a festival and have a cleanse. Starting tomorrow, it'll be Political Detox Week on HN. During this week, all primarily political stories will be off-topic. We'll kill them when we see them and invite users to flag them. We'll do this for a week, just to see what happens.

We need to clarify what HN is and isn't. What HN is: a place for intellectual curiosity and thoughtful discussion. What it is not: a political, ideological, national, racial, or religious battlefield. Accounts that use HN primarily for the latter are abusing the site. We ban such accounts.

Note that word "primarily". This seems to be a good test to distinguish ordinary HN users, who are here for a wide range of interests that occasionally include political ones, from the ideologically committed sort of commenters who don't seem to care about other things and come here to argue against their enemies. We'd like those commenters to understand that they are really looking for a different kind of site. They need to find another, or maybe start a new one.

More here for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13096750.

In my opinion, these types of articles should stop making the front pages of Hacker News. They aren't generally relevant in anyway to the greater community of readers on here. There are plenty of different sites that specialize in non-geek culture related things, but that isn't why the bulk of us come to this site. Just my opinion, however I also agree, I could just as easily not click on it.