Democrats want FCC to reject Trump campaign threat to broadcasters

reuters.com

3 points·CameronNemo··6 comments

> 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.

Why is this rule not enforced more, there is zero intellectual interest to be found on this topic, it's clearly a story about political asshattery. Just because the keyword "FCC" is in there doesn't make it relevant.

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

I did flag it, but I was making an observation that there are too many like this. I think it's acceptable to comment on this thread when it's so clearly off topic. I, and many others, come here to get away from this crap.

Sorry about that. Should have read the guidelines. Did not see them down there. I would suggest that the submission page include a link to the guidelines, or simply contain the verbatim "What to submit" section.

You've been on HN for (at least) six years and never noticed the guidelines?

Knew they existed somewhere, did not know bother to read them. Careless? Yeah, probably. But it has rarely bitten me. Usually I'm good at reading the room.

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