| http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports" This is clearly a non-exhaustive list. "unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" This phenomenon, as pointed out by the article itself, is not new. Moreover, it is not interesting to hackers for any reason other than being generally interesting. "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" This is exactly the sort of thing TV news would cover. Yes, I was wrong to submit that comment according to the rules. I flagged the article, but when it has already reached #2 you know it's not coming down. Hacker News died a little bit more yesterday in accepting that _Off-Topic_ article. |