3. Also, very lately there's been a marked increase in the class warfare/social justice/inequality vibe filtering in. Which, if you ask me, is a subclass of a

3. Also, very lately there's been a marked increase in the class warfare/social justice/inequality vibe filtering in. Which, if you ask me, is a subclass of a larger problem: people with agendas. The bonnet-dwelling bee is, as always, the most destructive parasite of all. In the good ol' days, discussions about politics were strictly banned, and this ban was pretty heavily enforced. Comments of the form "!HN" would be modded up. But then folks got bored with the meta-discussion about whether or not a given story was HN-worthy, so pg added a line to the guidelines: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. which seems to have killed off the meta-discussion but also resulted in a bunch of rather political stories and discussions showing up.