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Re:A freed slave's most polite fuck-you to his former master by tkahn6 on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @03:11AM (#3532344)
Interesting but not Hacker News. Flagged.
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Re:A freed slave's most polite fuck-you to his former master by willvarfar on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @03:19AM (#3532362)
Interesting trumps. If its interesting to people who read HN, it belongs on HN.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is lax enough.

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Re:A freed slave's most polite fuck-you to his former master by tkahn6 on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @03:39AM (#3532401)
> If its interesting to people who read HN, it belongs on HN.

Completely false. If that were true, there would be no need for guidelines.

In fact it says, "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" which is not semantically equivalent to "people on HN".

If everyone on reddit signed up for an account today, by your interpretation HN would be full of pun threads and cats and that would be acceptable.

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