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by 198d 5298 days ago
So, there's definitely been a few discussion recently about the quality of Hacker News articles and their relevancy to the community. Is this post an indication that LOLCats are of high priority for discussion?
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It's a honeypot article. Upvote it and your upvotes count less. Flag it, and your flags count more.
There's always a discussion about quality and relevancy. What I find most interesting here is that 'cute animal pictures' are specifically called out as off-topic in the guidelines, and cat pictures hold such a strong connotation of lack of content to me.

And then, 130 points puts it at 5th or 6th rank of the front page, sorted just by points (at the time of this post).

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I don't see an issue with web developer-oriented levity. I believe this should be a protected class of LOLCats.