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Is the "no politics on HN" rule dead?

It's a bit complicated. Here's dang's most recent comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463480

There never was such a rule.

I bet dang feels stupid for doing that experiment, it looks like the "hn is no-politics zone" meme will stay around for years.

It's a shame a bunch of pathological arseholes ruined it. It was a good idea.

You're wrong about "there never was such a rule" too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463480

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

By my understanding, "most" officially means "uninteresting", and extra-officially means "those that make the comments section devolve into a flamewar" (which, in turn, means "most")

It wasn't a good idea. 'political' wasn't concretely defined, and so the ban just made it easier to flag any topic you don't like by way of a shifting definition of the word.

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