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Re:I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks by kragen on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:37PM (#43417570)
You're right; the guideline to not submit most stories about politics was not present from the beginning, but rather newly added in May 02008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080527112502/http://ycombinato...

But that greatly predates the changes in moderation strategies or hiring dang and sctb.

Surely the understanding of the site's social dynamics has evolved over time, though, and so the reasons for the same guideline are different now.

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Re:I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks by sillyfluke on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:19AM (#43420264)
>But that greatly predates the changes in moderation strategies or hiring dang

dang explicitly states they do it differently than pg it:

when a thread turns into a political flamewar, we moderate it more than pg used to. There were many past submissions that neither users nor moderators would allow today [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

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Re:I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks by kragen on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:45AM (#43424202)
Thank you!
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