Please don't post garden-variety political stories to HN.
This kind of thing is off-topic here and would easily deluge the site if we didn't actively prevent it from doing so.
This kind of thing is off-topic here and would easily deluge the site if we didn't actively prevent it from doing so.
HN has had plenty of discussions of the Trump administration. A certain amount is ok—it depends on the story—but the latest news about who may or may not have spoken to an ambassador doesn't come close to the threshold. It's not a borderline call; it's not even in the ball park. If we allow that, we allow everything. In that case politics would certainly take over the site. This story was at #1 before we demoted it!
The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting: gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter.
I agree, that would be a "garden-variety political story." This isn't that story. This is a story about the Attorney General of the United States lying under oath and perjuring himself to Congress.
It doesn't really matter what kind of news aggregator you're running: tech, sports, gardening... that's a story that should be at the top of all of them.
A story of quite significance to our daily lives is not off topic here.
Well, the site guidelines[1] would disagree with you:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Again, If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.