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Same reason why every vaguely pro-Trump comment has been flagged or downvoted into oblivion.

• dang 10y ago
  It isn't that it's pro-Trump, it's that it's pure politics. Such posts always get heavily flagged, and it's hard to disagree with that, since they're typically not posted to gratify intellectual curiosity.
  • clevernickname 10y ago
    On the contrary, purely political stories are constantly upvoted and allowed on HN. They're just almost always left leaning stories. A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing 542 points by warrenmar 17 hours ago | flag | past | web | 718 comments I can almost guarantee that if/when Bernie drops out, a submission on it will be allowed to stay and hit hundreds of points.
    • tptacek 10y ago
      Not if I can help it. Politics on HN are toxic, no matter what their valence.
    • dang 10y ago
      Basic Income stories are political, but they aren't purely political. There's an intellectual interest in thinking about and debating such a major social change. Political horse race stories are the opposite. People tend to see HN as ideologically biased in favor of whatever they disagree with—that's a classic cognitive bias in its own right. Indeed there are some biases on specific issues (Snowden detractors don't do well here), but I'm not sure I agree they cut left or right overall. The community is pretty divided, much as the larger population is.