It’s not the title that’s the problem. HN readers flag these submissions because they feel they violate, either in letter or spirit, this HN guideline:
“Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.”
IMO there's a massive difference between genuine curiosity and discussion over topics which have an outsized impact on domestic and global politics and actual polemics and 'ideological battle'.
FWIW I am not disagreeing, I do genuinely believe this is why people flag posts.
A lot of discussion on HN is ideological in nature, it’s just that the context is often Vue or React, or if PHP is good now, or how does SPA:s work in some browsers, or should desktop apps using Electron exist…
Humanitarian/ethics contexted articles being flagged means that HN curiosity is being trampled on in a certain manner, doesn’t it?
I don’t sense any reluctance, or lack of interest in humanitarian or ethical articles, but rather the idea that Israel v Palestine is the core issue of the century.
True I suppose. But shouldn’t that be an even greater reason not to flag them? Issues of such importance is quite the opposite of regular bikeshedding.
