I wrote something maybe useful on the importance of these topics: lobste.rs/c/ser2e6

One reason for the guideline's form: threads go better starting from specific examples rather than generalized politics like the McS article. Less slogans and dismissiveness, much more constructive disagreements.

Lot of “you’re absolutely right” in those comments.

I get some of these, running a forum. A guy who was going to cure cancer with CSVs, a couple times a guy who thinks YC leads a conspiracy against him, a guy who wants me to canonize a gospel subset of his opinions. (Maybe because my name is "Peter"?)

The current topicality guideline reads pretty similar to your description: lobste.rs/about#topica... Would you want to remove the boundary altogether, or draw a new one somewhere specific? You mention sociology, politics, anthropology in your comment, and I think tech touches a lot more.

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my kingdom for an empty room in which a horrible alien and/or robot appears, for no reason, after which there is no explanation for why that happened, how it got in there, or whose fault it was

They're good feet, Brent.

Thanks for the clear report, the screenshot is a big help. You can track this bug here: github.com/lobsters/lob...

Trying to display lines that cross over nested elements is not something HTML + CSS are great at, these lines give us trouble every time we touch thread layout.

This seems to be working for us: github.com/lobsters/lob...

I think they’re a great fit for bootstrapping devs, that’s why I’m starting one.

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the technical term is a "whoopsie" github.com/lobsters/lob...