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That's literally anything & everything, though. Making there no point to having that rule when submissions are thus judged by the special "majority opinion" club.


Not discarding preemptively what can be interesting is probably a good thing.


"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, 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."


TV news varies between countries. A piece about a new Wes Anderson movie is TV news, at least in many countries where the news isn't drivel.


"strongest plausible interpretation"

The "TV News" reference must mean "somehow inconsequential events". The piece about the movie will be part of the "cultural" section in the news.

You have to duly try taking expressions for what they seem to have meant to mean.




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