[teddyh]

People here love to quote that, but they rarely mention the very next sentence:

“Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, 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.”

Left to their own devices, people tend to devolve to the lowest common denominator-type news. I wish the moderators here (since we have them) would do a better job of keeping such “Off-Topic” stuff off the front page.

[ceejayoz]

Don't forget this bit, though:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.