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The parent is trying to tell that off-topic is not welcomed by some users. I am the same opinion, I don't want to see on HN news about some non-technical political thing in LA or India , or see 3 days in a row someone toy Rust project.

You can try to change my mind that I should never use GOTO, some fanatic submitted such articles and comments using the "NEVER" and I will be happy to reply because is still on topic. But don't submit something like "God says vaccine is bad but hearth pills are good" since is obvious off topic , though I am curious about such illogical believes if I want to learn more there is a better forum for that.

>>simion+(OP)
Entirely agree about political stories and rust projects du jour (I’d go as far as associating out-of-topic posts on $random_software about how it’s be much better in rust).

Just ignore/downvote/flag and move on, though. Nobody is forcing anyone else to read anything, and it’s normal that some people here are interested in things in which I’m not. None of us is the arbiter of what should or should not be on HN. Not us mere posters, anyway.

>>simion+(OP)
> You can try to change my mind that I should never use GOTO …

It’s handy for jumping to the bottom of a control loop if the language lacks a CONTINUE statement - the sin being outweighed by cleaner and easier to maintain code.

>>implem+d3
Sure, but even if you have continue some languages give you the GOTO so you can exit out from nested loops, useful when you need to work say with pixel colors in a big image, you need all the performance you can get.

>>simion+(OP)
I don't think it is hard to pick clear examples. It is harder to pick clear policies for examples that end up in some gray area.

>>kergon+B1
I am not clear about flagging, I don't want to get myself tagged because I flag-ed someone 3rd submission of his weekend Rust project, or those COVID conspiracies/magic cures, I could offend some free-speech extremist if I have the opinion that the HN is not the correct place for that.

>>bborud+e4
Sure, but the parent was implying that if we reject some content is because we don't want our mind changed. A forum should have a scope/topic and it should reject off-topic posts.

I love subreddits with clear rules, then you don't see articles or comments that go in tangents, memes or american or international politics. The moderators can decide the gray area after user report. So trying to post some COVID or politics stuff in one of the good moderated subreddits will be removed and it is not because we don't want to open our mind.

>>simion+(OP)
>God says vaccine is bad but hearth pills are good

Anyone else wondering what a "hearth pill" is?

>>simion+G4
Yeah flagging is the most extreme, for things that really don’t have anything to do here. It’s rare that a flag-able story ends up on the front page, to be fair, but a COVID magical cure or a propaganda piece for the usual quacks would fit all the criteria to be flagged to oblivion.

I don’t flag random projects, just ignore them (I know some people here like them, it’s not my thing but it is harmless). I downvote obnoxious comments about how something needs to be rewritten in rust in unrelated threads, though.

>>geoduc+Ch
Probably a "horse dewormer pill", which is what all the Trump supporters are popping these days instead of getting vaccinated and wearing masks, because they don't trust doctors or medical science or vaccines.

>>geoduc+Ch
Possibly, the word “health” was mis-typed on a phone and then wrongly auto-corrected to be “hearth”.

>>kergon+aw
there are times when a very good post contains discussion that quickly goes "lord of the flies" with controversy polarity and off topicality.

this is a case where i would flag the post rather than spend hours flagging comments, that would result in jail time if said IRL.

>>geoduc+Ch
>Anyone else wondering what a "hearth pill" is?

typo/bad spell, I meant heart

I am not attacking Trump or americans here, is a story from my country where in a very religious family the daughter failed to convince her mother to get the vaccine, the reason was soem Jesus /God does not allow it but for some reason God allows the mother to take pills/medicine for her heart ... makes no sense , if God gifted you a bad heart then WTF do you take unnatural pills, why did you vaccinated your children but for COVID you somehow found in the Bible that this vaccine is too much.

>>simion+e5
The parent actually didn't refer to off-topic posts. It referred to posts that "challenge our beliefs, values, opinions or prejudices".