I wonder why pointless news like these are on HN but someone trying to assassinate the leading presidential candidate isn't. Because it's interesting to someone ok I got it.
The Guidelines say that the Trump assassination is off-topic in several ways:
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
This story is about politics, crime and a celebrity. And it is not a new phenomenon in the US, where there have already been several assassination attempts (a few successful) on politicians, including presidents. [1]
The Guidelines also say:
"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
> This story is about politics, crime and a celebrity. And it is not a new phenomenon in the US, where there have already been several assassination attempts (a few successful) on politicians, including presidents. [1]
By this logic, this story also doesn't qualify, because people have sued for discrimination. It's not new.
Edit oh look someone finally posted it [1]. See, I was right and you were wrong, it is within the guidelines, oops. Read the guidelines [2]
Edit 2: dang spells it out explicitly and agrees with me[3], he has made this story unflaggable. Please read the guidelines before making stupid comments.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 43.8 ms ] threadThings I don't want from Mozilla: Literally everything they've done over the last 8 years.
I'm convinced at this point that they exist as a sort of strategic vote-spoiler so that no alternative browser can get off the ground.
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
This story is about politics, crime and a celebrity. And it is not a new phenomenon in the US, where there have already been several assassination attempts (a few successful) on politicians, including presidents. [1]
The Guidelines also say:
"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Read the Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-15/historical-political-...
By this logic, this story also doesn't qualify, because people have sued for discrimination. It's not new.
Edit oh look someone finally posted it [1]. See, I was right and you were wrong, it is within the guidelines, oops. Read the guidelines [2]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40957564
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit 2: dang spells it out explicitly and agrees with me[3], he has made this story unflaggable. Please read the guidelines before making stupid comments.
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963142