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Ask HN: How is Trump testing positive for Coronavirus not on the frontpage?

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Re: Ask HN: How is Trump testing positive for Coronavirus not on the frontpage?

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Post by plessthanpt05 »

detaro wrote: post #4

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Trump saying him and Melania testing positive for the Coronavirus four weeks out from the presidential election is huge news. This story is not about politics (i.e. about a political issue), it is about a political/world leader and his wife.

Edit: So "TV news" covering the newest iPhone release would probably be off-topic too then based on this reasoning, but this seems to reliably hit the front page of HN everytime Apple does so. Apologies for the bad example.

Re: Ask HN: How is Trump testing positive for Coronavirus not on the frontpage?

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Post by detaro »

plessthanpt05 wrote: post #5
detaro wrote: post #4

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Trump saying him and Melania testing positive for the Coronavirus four weeks out from the presidential election is huge news. This story is not about politics (i.e. about a political issue), it is about a political/world leader and his wife. Edit: So "TV news" covering the newest iPhone release would probably be off-topic too then based on this reasoning, but this seems to reliably hit the front page of HN everytime…

> This story is not about politics (i.e. about a political issue), it is about a political leader and his wife.

That's worse. Political issues as at least typically have different perspectives to discuss, people-facts do not. This doesn't need to be on the front page.

Re: Ask HN: How is Trump testing positive for Coronavirus not on the frontpage?

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Post by tastroder »

plessthanpt05 wrote: post #5
detaro wrote: post #4

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Trump saying him and Melania testing positive for the Coronavirus four weeks out from the presidential election is huge news. This story is not about politics (i.e. about a political issue), it is about a political/world leader and his wife. Edit: So "TV news" covering the newest iPhone release would probably be off-topic too then based on this reasoning, but this seems to reliably hit the front page of HN everytime…

Which is, given that all of them seem to have been submitted on /newest, pretty clear "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." territory (political or not). It's off topic and the comments wouldn't add anything you would not get from your Facebook/Twitter/news site comments section bubble, instead it would just create a mega-thread of political rants and general toxicity.

Re: Ask HN: How is Trump testing positive for Coronavirus not on the frontpage?

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Post by justinzollars »

Does anyone see the bot attack on Trumps Twitter account? That is interesting. They are posting Satanist images with captions in the Aramaic language.

If you work at Twitter you might want to get to work and stop this state sanctioned attack on his account.

Re: Ask HN: How is Trump testing positive for Coronavirus not on the frontpage?

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Post by TomAnthony »

justinzollars wrote: post #9

Does anyone see the bot attack on Trumps Twitter account? That is interesting. They are posting Satanist images with captions in the Aramaic language. If you work at Twitter you might want to get to work and stop this state sanctioned attack on his account.

Yeah, I saw that. I wanted to ask about it in one of the threads, but they are all being Flagged as off-topic, which is a shame given the magnitude of the story.
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