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And yet there are political posts (as well as the other things I mentioned) all the time and they rarely get downvoted to oblivion or flagged. shrug, I persona

And yet there are political posts (as well as the other things I mentioned) all the time and they rarely get downvoted to oblivion or flagged. shrug, I personally have very little interest in politics, so I'm with you on this, but the fact is that, against the guidelines or not, these posts happen all the time, get upvoted and generate lots of discussion (and in this particular case, I found nthompson's comment interesting enough that it was worth checking the comments) Besides, the guidelines also say "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate."

viraptor 8y ago
> And yet there are political posts (as well as the other things I mentioned) all the time and they rarely get downvoted to oblivion or flagged. Survivor bias. You can't downvote an article, but there's lots of them that reach high comment/vote radio or get flagged and you never see them.
rectang 8y ago
Direct partisan advocacy gets rejected swiftly. It's possible to have an interesting discussion on issues that have a political side, like health care, if you can live within the constraint of avoiding excessive partisanship and focus on the more abstract problem. Health care pricing is actually a great example and I've learned a lot from discussions of it on HN.