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ASK HN: We really need a politics tab at the top of hackernews. Can we make that happen?

• austincheney 7y ago
  Perhaps that is not a great idea. It would be nice to have more politically volatile discussions pushed into a corner. Unfortunately, political discussions online among strangers are often less than productive.
• mrfredward 7y ago
  Not sure how others feel, but personally, I'd be more interested in a tab that shows everything except politics rather than a politics tab.
• ulucs 7y ago
  I can get behind a tech-only tab which hides political/non-technological posts. Watching American software developers/computer scientists making unsubstantiated grand claims on foreign political matters or mathematics/economics proves to be bad for my blood pressure.
• 29_29 7y ago
  Hey Guys, to widen the discussion and make this more searchable, I'd hope for your feedback here for the whole community: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20966349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20966349
• kelnos 7y ago
  I'd rather not. Most political stories get flagged to death unless there's something specifically interesting about them that HNers would find interesting. Unfortunately, we occasionally end up with something like this, where it _is_ interesting from a public/private policy perspective, but the political aspects are too strong and overcome that.