People submitted news stories about this that had hundreds of upvotes. Why have they all been removed? Where are the mods?
Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
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Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#2Politics are off topic and we do our best to keep them off the front page.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#3Politics are off topic and we do our best to keep them off the front page.
Half the articles about Japanese culture are "off topic" yet rocket to the front page without issue.
i.e, on or off topic hasn't been the deciding factor on that for some time now. Pretty sure the rules even state that it's about "what people find interesting".
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#4Politics are off topic and we do our best to keep them off the front page.
Half the articles about Japanese culture are "off topic" yet rocket to the front page without issue. i.e, on or off topic hasn't been the deciding factor on that for some time now. Pretty sure the rules even state that it's about "what people find interesting".
Japanese culture is objectively more interesting than the politics of other people.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#5Politics are off topic and we do our best to keep them off the front page.
*Politics are off topic
There’s a small print to that and we know that “some” politics is off topic.
Or else I should not be seeing lots of criticism on the front page when the current US president does something that negatively affects the tech or AI industry.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Half the articles about Japanese culture are "off topic" yet rocket to the front page without issue. i.e, on or off topic hasn't been the deciding factor on that for some time now. Pretty sure the rules even state that it's about "what people find interesting".
Japanese culture is objectively more interesting than the politics of other people.
Japanese culture is literally the politics of other people.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#7Politics are off topic and we do our best to keep them off the front page.
*Politics are off topic There’s a small print to that and we know that “some” politics is off topic. Or else I should not be seeing lots of criticism on the front page when the current US president does something that negatively affects the tech or AI industry.
These don't stick around on the front page for long. These get demoted automatically as they usually generate flame. Flame is calculated by comparing numbers of comments and voting patterns. Or users see them and flag them. Unless a moderator intervenes or the submission is Very Important (quite rare).
What often happens to not understanding how NH works is conspiracy theorising. I note that the user account age who submitted this question is only a year or so old which might indicate a gap in understanding how this place works.
Dang has a number of comments (find them using the search below) explaining all this better than I can :)
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Half the articles about Japanese culture are "off topic" yet rocket to the front page without issue. i.e, on or off topic hasn't been the deciding factor on that for some time now. Pretty sure the rules even state that it's about "what people find interesting".
Japanese culture is objectively more interesting than the politics of other people.
Your mistake is thinking you can be snarky and reduce my point to only the culture; we've certainly had articles about Japanese politics here.
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#9Looks like they are still there, just flagged. Not sure if it's moderator decision or just more people are annoyed by political topics than by japanese culture
Re: Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
#10anything critical of the US regime is almost immediately flagged and downvoted.
it's uh pretty confronting!