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[OT] It's clearly a slow news day today but what's with almost all the submissions today being very content-lite?

Very little actual news or explanation, just links to wikis or other content without any context.

Perhaps it's often like this but there is fewer people to shape the front-page today.

Perhaps submitter could explain the submission?

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It's often like this. As an example, Wikipedia links[0] get posted frequently and, to me, it seems completely random when they will get a lot of votes. The pages that get votes don't seem to be any less interesting than the ones that do.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org

I didn't submit it to HN, but I saw this link on the last page of Andy Müller-Maguhns talk [0] at 36C3 - this years chaos commication congress in Leipzig, Germany.

[0] Technical aspects of the surveillance in and around the Ecuadorian embassy in London - Details about the man hunt for Julian Assange and Wikileaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoT4lPV96uw

Why should submitter explain the submission?

There's plenty of content in the link, and afaik we are all still being spied on by utterly unaccountable forces.

I don't think it's unreasonable to ask the author what they meant to convey with a random link.

the method of improving user submitted content that i prefer to use ends up being more enjoyable than asking for explanations when the material doesn't grab me.

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