ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

> Every thread in this conversation is A+ idiotic. … Reddit crowd

I am not sure how this elitism is justified - when it comes to military or international law, there is no difference between asking on HN and a Joe off the street.

Add in the fact that many software developers are, my, how to put this, emotionally challenged, and of course each thread will be idiotic.

I had not realized submissions on 7 Oct were banned. Thank you for drawing attention to that. I threw the term "7 Oct" and "7 October" and there's pretty clearly no major threads about it, especially not in October. Even "Hamas" didn't reveal anything.

I don't think it's at all helpful to say "Every" thread in this conversation is "idiotic" alongside this, though. That just gives people room to dismiss your comment

I don't usually reply to meta posts, but I can't help but agree with this.

As much as I appreciate the work moderators do here any other day of the year, it was disappointing that there was no discussion allowed on October 7th - indeed, every thread was nuked - when 0.1% of the Jews in the world were murdered in a single day.

When Russia attacked Ukraine that was very much allowed to be discussed, and rightly so.

It's not elitism, it's conservatism. The people who will signup are the same ones who upvote every "Trump got slammed by XX" threads on reddit. Once they know that another and a more genuine reddit exists, they'll starting shovel that stuff here too.