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There's no real reason why given. It seems that HN's "No politics" policy flows over to their blog updates as well.

• dang 7y ago
  HN doesn't have a no politics policy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20political%20overlap&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Edit: maybe I should add that we do moderate posts that are just political, i.e. don't have an intellectually curious angle, as well as threads that depart from the path of curious discussion and sink into flames.
  • ddevault 7y ago
    I think you should adopt your "moderate with a light touch on sensitive YC-affecting topics" tactics for this thread.
    • dang 7y ago
      Indeed I am. This thread is much worse than we'd normally allow.
• paulddraper 7y ago
  You do understand that YC China would have been an enormous change, right? They barely started doing NYC this year. The default answer is simply "no"/"not right now"; not a ton of explanation required.
• incompatible 7y ago
  The reason given was "change of leadership", i.e., from Sam Altman to Geoff Ralston. Interestingly, Geoff wrote: "we are just working on launching YC China and I'll work hard to make sure Qi Lu has everything he needs to make that go well" after he was appointed, so it doesn't seem like he started out with different ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969490
• tomnipotent 7y ago
  > "No politics" Maybe because politics was not involved and it was purely an operational capacity decision? I know it's not as fun as silly conspiracy theories.