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You cannot post inflammatory, escalatory comments like this on Hacker News, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. I'm not banning now as you've been a community member for a while and have posted some good comments, but please take care to read the guidelines and avoid posting like this in future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929357 and marked it off topic.


I appreciate the clemency, and will change my ways.

Why are topics like this not considered Off-Topic by the guidelines?


Why are topics like this not considered Off-Topic by the guidelines?

A recent tomhow (and why) explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750046


Thank you for sharing that link.

I figured only the deaths of people relevant to topics discussed on this forum, but I suppose it is extended to any death of great importance.


It’s roughly “sufficiently big or interesting real world events” for some value of sufficiently big or interesting.




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