There's been a lot of misunderstanding with respect to the appropriateness of politics on HN. 'dang has made a number of comments related to it recently. I've a

There's been a lot of misunderstanding with respect to the appropriateness of politics on HN. 'dang has made a number of comments related to it recently. I've aggregated some of them. The quotes are just identifiable snippets from the posts themselves. If you're interested in this topic, I encourage you to read them in their entirety. --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969 There's no satisfying anybody about this: not the readers who want more politics, not the readers who want less, and certainly not the partisans on an issue. --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522433 There's a lot more politics on HN right now than there usually is, which is appropriate since it reflects what's going on right now. --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969 When there's a deluge of political stories, as in the last couple days, users heavily flag most of them. But there have still been plenty of major threads spending plenty of time on the front page. That's the status quo for HN: most politics are off topic, but not all. It's a delicate balance and an important one. Letting politics overrun this site would kill it.