Donald Trump TIME Person of the Year

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I hope this doesn't get flagged. Despite being political, it's a pretty big story.

I was thinking the same thing and Trump is only part of the story. There are interesting articles on the other candidates. I hesitated before posting it but I don't believe it's a purely political article and considering the article ends up on HN annually it wouldn't be right to ban it this year.

Edit: There's an interesting part on 'the hackers' [1]

[1] http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-hackers-runner-...

Edit 2: Great, flagged. I'm all for a week of no political news on here but it's a stretch to call this political. If certain users can't engage in civil discussion ban the users - not the discussion.

> it's a stretch to call this political

I'm sorry to disappoint, but it's really not a stretch to call "Donald Trump person of the year" a political story.

We're planning to go back to the status quo ante—with a few adjustments—once the no-politics-weeks thing is over. But even under HN's normal conditions, this article would be off-topic.

Ok, I accept that in no-politics week it may not be allowed, however:

>> "But even under HN's normal conditions, this article would be off-topic."

There were multiple parts to the piece, one of which was the impact hackers have had globally in 2016 (not just on the US election).

Perhaps if that bit were a separate article it would be different. In this case the gravitational pull of the lede would be guaranteed to overwhelm everything else.

Ok, understood. Just trying to get a sense of what's permitted.

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