Comment by rms
17 years ago
While this is awesome, this is covered on the TV News, so it does fall within what the rules consider off-topic. But threads like this have come up rarely enough (one previous Obama thread?), that the rules can be broken.
Go Obama.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Though I guess Obama is kind of an interesting new phenomenon, but probably not new to anyone here.
maybe the moderators are off on a honeymoon, or something?
Well, if we need to tweak it for more relevancy, I'd be interested to hear any strong public speakers pick apart what makes him such a good speaker.
Yeah...however, the outcome of the presidential election would deserve to be on the front page.
No. That will be on every news source.
But this isn't the outcome of a presidential election. And anyways, why should the outcome of the presidential election be on HN? Its not especially relevant to hackers, and I'm quite certain people will see the news elsewhere - it usually gets a lot of coverage.
I think it is relevant to hackers. It might not be hacker-specific, but it significantly affects all kinds of things, many IP related.
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Agreed... but I don't make the rules. Do your worst, editors.