Comment by barbazoo
1 day ago
There are obviously N groups but one you're missing might be the people that just don't think it's a topic that fits the purpose of this space, at least how it's stated in the guidelines.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, 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.
I can't help but feel that stories like these fall under "off-topic".
How can a story about US visas be off topic when YC itself posts a visa AMA with their immigration lawyer several times a year?
> How can a story about US visas be off topic
It's extensively covered by mainstream media and it's unrelated to tech other than the few individuals that have a visa that's relevant here. Does this article really "gratify one's intellectual curiosity"?
You missed the second half of the question you responded to. That changes the context.
You have to have some sort of cut off since anything can relevant to people in tech.
The story about the British Queen dying wasn’t flagged as off topic and that was exhaustively covered by media world wide