Why are all the HN posts about the presidential election result flagged?

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

I assume people believe it doesn't fall under the guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon[...]. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

and

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

Remember when slashdot was interesting? Keep dragging divisive topics into HN and it will turn into the sh!thole that slashdot is now. I'm not just talking about politics, an article about vim vs emacs is (usually) just as worthless.

There are places to discuss politics. But I come to HN regularly because the topics are usually about things that stand or fall on their own merits and inherently promote further exploration of a topic, often linking to related resources that readers may not be aware of.

There is nothing new in politics, it's the same competing agendas recycled over and over again. I worry HN is slipping more towards that genre of tribalistic topics that achieve nothing more than virtue signaling and mud slinging.

HN is not a general news site. If you want to read about or discuss the election, there's more appropriate sites for that. I'm sure you can find them on your own.

Why would there need to be more than one post?

(1) General politics is considered off-topic, so most people would just shrug and move on.

(2) I imagine there are some people who got very agitated this morning (I wonder why) and decided to show their displeasure by flagging and downvoting everything related to general US politics.

Add (1) and (2) and we have our current situation. Nothing of value is lost, IMHO.

It is 'significant news' but...

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, 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. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Downvoters: So it isn't significant news then and it doesn't go against the HN guidelines shown in [0]? Care to explain then?

I assumed it's because it's premature for the networks to call it. The results are close in several states and are in recounts or being challenged.