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1. dang+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-07-15 00:35:48
> Aren’t some topics just out of bounds for discussion here though?

No, if you look in the site guidelines you'll see that they say "Most" stories on certain themes are off topic, and that word is there intentionally. It allows for exceptions, especially when there's either something interestingly different about a story, or some significant new information to discuss.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

For past explanations about how we think about this in terms of political topics, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... There are lots of links there to where I've explained this in detail. If anyone has a question that I haven't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

Stories drawn from the arts, like music and also literature and painting, or more generally from history, archaeology, you name it, are most welcome here as long as they offer something of intellectual curiosity. So if HN commenters are pushing back on a story just because it's about e.g. music, that would be bad. (But if it were a gossipy story about a famous musician, say, that would be different.)

Sex is its own special case in all things, so we would have to talk about that separately.

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2. ianai+6i[view] [source] 2022-07-15 03:18:32
>>dang+(OP)
Good to know. Thank you.
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