Your comment is a complaint that the submission is inappropriate, why would you write it here?
“Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.” --https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for the info. I just flagged it. My main complaint is that it is an opinion piece. I actually agree with the content of the opinion piece. I'm also really tired of politics and HN has been a relatively healthy place for me, mentally. I'd like to keep it that way.
These are clearly important times, regardless of your politics. The HN guidelines define on topic as "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."
Up-votes are a measure of what is found interesting. Posting the topic and receiving no up-votes (the "posted but not interesting to good hackers" case) means no presence on the front page, which means no one is impacted, aka the cost is low.
Alternatively, pre-emptively censoring something that might have been of interest (the "not posted but interesting to good hackers" case) means no discussion about a topic people would/do find interesting, aka the opportunity cost is high.
The site self-corrects, so we shouldn't live in fear of topics.
cwillu|28 days ago
“Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.” --https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
gardnr|28 days ago
yodon|28 days ago
These are clearly important times, regardless of your politics. The HN guidelines define on topic as "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."
Up-votes are a measure of what is found interesting. Posting the topic and receiving no up-votes (the "posted but not interesting to good hackers" case) means no presence on the front page, which means no one is impacted, aka the cost is low.
Alternatively, pre-emptively censoring something that might have been of interest (the "not posted but interesting to good hackers" case) means no discussion about a topic people would/do find interesting, aka the opportunity cost is high.
The site self-corrects, so we shouldn't live in fear of topics.
gardnr|28 days ago
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics
and
> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
skippityosborne|28 days ago