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Yeah that rule is extremely stupid. Please do what you can to make the mods and admins realize that this rule should be removed. Politics is fascinating. HN is

• dang 7y ago
  What rule are you referring to?
  • Der_Einzige 7y ago
    Not to post political stuff on HN
    • dang 7y ago
      There's no such rule. I've written about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and in lots of previous places: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20political%20overlap&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... If anyone has a question that I haven't addressed in there, let me know and I'll be happy to answer.
      • macintux 7y ago
        The guideline for comments I was leaning on to try to cut short what seemed like inevitable political ugliness: > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.
        • dang 7y ago
          For sure, but curious conversation on political topics is possible, and is not battle. It depends on whether one is posting thoughtfully or just trying to smite enemies. That's the zone that we hope HN threads will inhabit when addressing politicized topics. Of course it's unstable and frequently deteriorates, hence all the moderation comments we end up having to post. But I don't know of a better alternative. As I explained at the links mentioned upthread, we can't ban all politics and we can't just let such threads run raw either.