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Comment by Fizzadar | Hacker News Reader

Previously submitted (not by me), but removed due to the usual flagging of all such content. Used actual title so not afowl of HN rules.

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It’s not the title that’s the problem. HN readers flag these submissions because they feel they violate, either in letter or spirit, this HN guideline:

“Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.”

IMO there's a massive difference between genuine curiosity and discussion over topics which have an outsized impact on domestic and global politics and actual polemics and 'ideological battle'.

FWIW I am not disagreeing, I do genuinely believe this is why people flag posts.

A lot of discussion on HN is ideological in nature, it’s just that the context is often Vue or React, or if PHP is good now, or how does SPA:s work in some browsers, or should desktop apps using Electron exist…

Humanitarian/ethics contexted articles being flagged means that HN curiosity is being trampled on in a certain manner, doesn’t it?

It’s HN readers who do the flagging.

I don’t sense any reluctance, or lack of interest in humanitarian or ethical articles, but rather the idea that Israel v Palestine is the core issue of the century.

True I suppose. But shouldn’t that be an even greater reason not to flag them? Issues of such importance is quite the opposite of regular bikeshedding.

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