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Comment by peteradio | Hacker News Reader

This has been flagged dead already here from few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35466973

edit: Ok, this got flagged dead again and I've vouched. What is the problem with the piece?

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, 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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This, to me, falls clearly in the off-topic category. HN isn't a general news discussion board, and I'd prefer it to stay that way.

I get your point, although:

> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

And I do think it gratifies intellectual curiosity to see how the behavior is defended. But I will readily admit that the discussions don't always pan out.

I agree it's a fuzzy line. I'm explaining the position of those who flagged it, since you asked :)

Thanks :)

But this gratified my intellectual curiosity.

> But this gratified my intellectual curiosity.

How so, exactly?

Also, what's your definition of "intellectual curiosity"?

Why does it matter? It gratified my intellectual curiosity so I gave it an updoot.

Because I suspect that phrase doesn't mean what you think it means.

Why's that?

I answered your question. How about you answer mine?

Why would I do that?

It might gratify their intellectual curiosity.

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