Comment by nomdep
1 year ago
You are right, it's unfair because there is no strong evidence to make that assertion.
I don't mind about what are your personal political affiliations or sympathies, however, I still maintain that this topic is textbook against the guidelines, and because of that I'm still afraid we will see post against candidate X in the front page in a few months. Time will tell.
That's a common misunderstanding of HN's guidelines; what they say is that most stories about politics are off-topic, and of course most != all. This has been the case for a long time—see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
I'm not saying we always make the right call—we don't, and anyhow people always disagree about what the right call is. But the underlying principles are at least pretty clear.