flagged already. last time something was posted about trump (his leaked taxes return from nyt) such links were flagged and somebody said they were probably "off-topic". so the potus is sick with a deadly disease, the us might fall in civil war and all this is considered "off-topic". "cool".
Yeah, I get on a technical level why this stuff gets flagged—it’s not tech-world enough, and I think a lot of us are here to escape Twitter—but it’s still pretty weird to see these significant issues dismissed as off-topic. I dunno, maybe there should be a “politics branch” or something where topics that aren’t tech-related can go?
You could say the same about posts relating to anime or how to bake. The sites singular focus on hackers is what I think keeps it from devolving down the reddit path.