Overall I’m pretty confused by this comment, and don’t really understand what the “edge case” reasoning is. The reference to Berkeley—which I take to be what you’re saying makes this an edge case—doesn’t reference any specifics that require insider knowledge to understand. It’s literally an account of how I explained it to a few people who are not part of the Berkeley local community (most of whom seemed to find it perfectly intelligible). A friend on Twitter commented that he might as well have swapped the city names and titled it “why I left DC and what St Louis was like.” Pretty much the only thing I can imagine requiring local knowledge is the subsequent unexplained reference to “the Bay,” which is unnecessary so I’ll fix it.
I think it would be a bit confusing to an outsider, but I agree that it wouldn’t be any significant obstacle to understanding, which was my whole point.
The edge-case-ness does not come from it being not a good fit, but more from the dimension of “there are common misunderstandings of our rules that might cause someone to think this post should not be on the frontpage”. You should think of the comment above being written to help people understand what our guidelines are and why this post is a good fit for the frontpage, not as something that tries to indicate the post is only barely a good fit.
Overall I’m pretty confused by this comment, and don’t really understand what the “edge case” reasoning is. The reference to Berkeley—which I take to be what you’re saying makes this an edge case—doesn’t reference any specifics that require insider knowledge to understand. It’s literally an account of how I explained it to a few people who are not part of the Berkeley local community (most of whom seemed to find it perfectly intelligible). A friend on Twitter commented that he might as well have swapped the city names and titled it “why I left DC and what St Louis was like.” Pretty much the only thing I can imagine requiring local knowledge is the subsequent unexplained reference to “the Bay,” which is unnecessary so I’ll fix it.
I think it would be a bit confusing to an outsider, but I agree that it wouldn’t be any significant obstacle to understanding, which was my whole point.
The edge-case-ness does not come from it being not a good fit, but more from the dimension of “there are common misunderstandings of our rules that might cause someone to think this post should not be on the frontpage”. You should think of the comment above being written to help people understand what our guidelines are and why this post is a good fit for the frontpage, not as something that tries to indicate the post is only barely a good fit.
Thanks for explaining, makes sense to me now.