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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

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606 points saikatsg | 5 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 1.262s | source
1. tomhow ◴[09 May 25 06:37 UTC] No.43934347[source]▶
You cannot post inflammatory, escalatory comments like this on Hacker News, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. I'm not banning now as you've been a community member for a while and have posted some good comments, but please take care to read the guidelines and avoid posting like this in future.

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

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929357 and marked it off topic.

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2. hirvi74 ◴[09 May 25 14:55 UTC] No.43937472[source]▶
I appreciate the clemency, and will change my ways.

Why are topics like this not considered Off-Topic by the guidelines?

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3. pvg ◴[09 May 25 16:36 UTC] No.43938678{3}[source]▶
Why are topics like this not considered Off-Topic by the guidelines?

A recent tomhow (and why) explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750046

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4. hirvi74 ◴[09 May 25 22:02 UTC] No.43941330{4}[source]▶
Thank you for sharing that link.

I figured only the deaths of people relevant to topics discussed on this forum, but I suppose it is extended to any death of great importance.

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5. pvg ◴[09 May 25 23:17 UTC] No.43941833{5}[source]▶
It’s roughly “sufficiently big or interesting real world events” for some value of sufficiently big or interesting.