Activist Predicts His Own Death, Says the Cops Killed Him

Re:Activist Predicts His Own Death, Says the Cops Killed Him by Chris2048 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @07:03PM (#10992548)

Where is the place to sift through the evidence?

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Re:Activist Predicts His Own Death, Says the Cops Killed Him by dang on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:03AM (#10993607)

I don't know. Reddit? Or maybe not.

If you've read the HN guidelines, it should be obvious that it's off topic here.

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Re:Activist Predicts His Own Death, Says the Cops Killed Him by Chris2048 on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:04AM (#10994722)

I have, and it's not obvious.

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link.

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Re:Activist Predicts His Own Death, Says the Cops Killed Him by dang on Friday January 29, 2016 @04:36PM (#10998675)

Since you've read the site guidelines, you know that HN is for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity. The curiosity in this case is of another, more intense nature. And you also know that purely sensational stories are deprecated.

It's true that the moderation comments that I post are off-topic, but they're the only way we know of to really disseminate knowledge of how the guidelines work in practice, and there's a clear demand for that information by users. So the judgment call is that their benefit is greater than their cost, even though the cost is nontrivial.

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Re:Activist Predicts His Own Death, Says the Cops Killed Him by Chris2048 on Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:45PM (#11007407)

Fair enough wrt moderation comments being of value; however, I don't see enough evidence that this story is sensational.

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