It's naked politics, sure enough, and if you try to say something meta or neutral, they'll down-vote you, because after all, we downvote here to indicate disagr

It's naked politics, sure enough, and if you try to say something meta or neutral, they'll down-vote you, because after all, we downvote here to indicate disagreement. Which has turned HN from stuff-that-hackers-find-interesting to something closer to viewpoints-hackers-most-agree-with And this is true for many other things aside from politics, politics is just where it's most obvious. (I think the format/process worked early on with a smaller, more startup-oriented crowd. Those days are long gone)