> 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.
Most people aren't here to read about the Russia/Ukraine conflict. You submit articles very frequently on the topic, so it's not surprising that some of them get flagged.
This particular post about Russian war crimes has over 60 comments which I think is significant and the post should not be flagged.
I am a high profile Ukraine War activist and what I post I think matters. Quite a few people in the defense industry and government read the posts that I submit to Hacker News YCombinator. I have a very large following in government and the international defense industries. I am working on a better work flow for news aggregation to bring more relevant up-to-date news to this community here and on X.com.
When it comes to war crimes and stories that relate to human atrocities I think an acception should be made here.
I'm working on my work/information flow so I'm able to spread better tech related news here at HackerNews YCombinator.
I enjoy reading and contributing the highly technical articles as that is what we want here. We don't want low level shit here. Slipping in one of these off-topic related articles is okay every now and then but I thought it would be at least interesting for us to read something about the condition of prisoners and their deaths due to ill-treatment. The world needs to know.
Cherry pick news articles that fit a certain theme and post them? Anyone can do that. Aggregate maps and data, sure.
I don't think that's true. There's indeed plenty of engagement in this discussion, quiver above the average engagement in HN, but somehow it sounds like there's some kind of counter pressure to bury this particular discussion.
> > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics,
Contemporary history should not be conflated with politics. There can be some overlap, but what this article describes are significant events that go far beyond everyday politics.
> Most people aren't here to read about the Russia/Ukraine conflict.
That can be said about pretty much any topic on this site. However, it is clear that there is still considerable interest in the topic even if it is below 50% of the user base
I don't know what "most people" is supposed to mean. To me, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as the US presidential elections, are clear examples of an interesting new phenomenon.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is particularly relevant to techies by the way Ukraine has been thrashing a full-blown invasion by Russia with nove high-tech weapons such as it's vast array of cheap drones.
Also, I'd say that a genocide in 21st century Europe is quite novel.