[asdf1145]

why were no political posts allowed when trump assassination attempt a week ago and this is now in front page?

[slater]

There was a thread; they are allowed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[unraveller]

The assassination attempt was suppressed until people had discussed it from all angles thoroughly elsewhere and gave up trying to discuss here. Definitely not allowed in the normal sense. But here it's nothing but an instant popup blue rally, for something was totally expected.

[slater]

This post was flagged for a while, as was the trump post, for a while.

[lesuorac]

tbh, while I think flagging is manual, I definitely don't mind if political posts were just auto-flagged and then only one of them is "let through".

Don't need 20 threads about the politics of the day with 19 of them having the top comment being "duplicate of <link>".

[Capricorn2481]

> The assassination attempt was suppressed until people had discussed it from all angles thoroughly elsewhere and gave up trying to discuss here

That's a lot of made up shit in one sentence.

[shadowgovt]

Because HN is not a democracy. ;)

[10xDev]

Don't worry Trump will make sure we will never forget about it anyway so it will find its way into conversation like it is now.