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The guidelines say that most political articles are offtopic. Most != all. The question is what should be in the setdiff of all - most.

About that, there are lots of past explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Edit: more at https://hackertimes.com/item?id=48724830 in this thread



I'm aware of what you've said about this in the past. I'm expressing my disagreement. HN would be improved dramatically by a significant change in where this line is drawn.


How would you draw the line?

A 100% airtight filter against political articles seems unrealistic to maintain. Since “political” is itself not fully settled.




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