[Hamuko]

>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.

[effingwewt]

Presidential election results of a major nation is extremely relevant despite being political, thus the qualifier most.

[wdr1]

Relevant to what?

[effingwewt]

Maybe I'm wrong here but if a there were a new Russian President of Queen or England I'd want to be informed, as we all have to interact with each other.

But again, maybe I'm wrong and it's just me. I never flag and can't downvote so maybe the people that do are correct.

edit- spelling.

[stareatgoats]

> a new Russian President of Queen or England

I'd say you are wrong, yes. HN isn't supposed to be your source of news, it is supposed to be a source of interesting topics to discuss. Hence "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" (from the guidelines).

This rule is one of the main reasons HN hasn't gone down in flame wars yet - topics like these routinely result in people losing their temper and the rational discourse goes out the window.

edit: looks like the mods decided to save one canonical thread on this subject after all (with a big plea to stay calm at the top): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967