I can understand your frustration. While you're right that HN is international (thankfully so), it still does have a large US demographic, which affects the num

I can understand your frustration. While you're right that HN is international (thankfully so), it still does have a large US demographic, which affects the number and topic of submissions as well as flagging behavior of the group as a whole. I know that may not be a whole lot of comfort. As for the guidelines, you rightly point out that they ask specifically to void political submissions, and you also point out that there's an argument that some exceptions should be made. The discussion of the appropriateness of politics on HN has come up numerous times just today. Here's a link to another one where I included a list of comments by 'dang that hopefully sheds more light on the mods' views on politics on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13527694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13527694