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>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I think you can argue there's an interesting new phenomenon here. By these rules, I'm guessing the original "Russia attacks Ukraine" post would be allowed, but not the 50th update on the war.

>>johnny+(OP)
It is an interesting new phenomena. I think it dilutes the original purpose of this forum and as a side topic it would be interesting to figure why it's happening more, but maybe its fair to just let things evolve to what people what them to be, even if people that used to come here for technical things mostly might stop frequenting it as much I guess - it takes time to keep hitting the hide button. It's getting like posting political commentary on a recipe site, and I do get that it's not a perfect analogy but hopefully you see what I mean....