A lot of people on HN are exhausted by a lot of the political submissions. So many of them descend into inflammatory, nonconstructive point scoring, which is th

A lot of people on HN are exhausted by a lot of the political submissions. So many of them descend into inflammatory, nonconstructive point scoring, which is the opposite of HN's intent for civil, substantive discussion. People are often flagging regardless of their own political leanings: they don't want HN to have so many political flamewars.