> * know political posts were not allowed here around election time* It's not just election time: general political articles are discouraged. From the guidelin

> * know political posts were not allowed here around election time* It's not just election time: general political articles are discouraged. From the guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. You can view the guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > maybe the flagging was due not to the content of the article but rather the exceptional negativity of its comments I think this is likely what's happening. Some topics do not lend themselves to civil and constructive discourse on HN, and as such, some members will flag them as inappropriate for HN.