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anon987 | 9 years ago

Please reinstate the ban on political stories.

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sqeaky|9 years ago

Every story is political because politics is everywhere.

Politics is just how people manage decision making so every science story can be affected by government grants, every tech story by IP laws...

geofft|9 years ago

Is a political blog post from Jupyter a political story?

Is a discussion of whether RustConf should be held in the US a political story?

Are the Snowden leaks political stories?

Is YC funding ACLU a political story?

sglane|9 years ago

To quote the HN Guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

lacampbell|9 years ago

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sctb|9 years ago

Please do not post deliberately inflammatory sarcasm (a.k.a. troll) like this on Hacker News. Yes, it's difficult to maintain civil and substantive discussion around divisive issues, but we can't just give up entirely!

phaus|9 years ago

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