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Comment by flexagoon

11 hours ago

HN guidelines say "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic for HN

Don't be fatuous with me boy. It's clear that that criterion could justify any number of things that are always immediately flagged. In fact, it could justify literally anything being posted here.

  • Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

    • You think there's nothing about "politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities" that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" that isn't "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"?

      This post is about a sport (juggling) and doesn't cover "new phenomena". So what the hell are we doing here? Any more rule nerd ass hall monitors want to drop another irrelevant rule in here?

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