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Nope. Politics they ban straight away no matter how many upvotes it gets. Too divisive they say.

lurquer 6y ago
Quite right. I propose immediately banning any further stories about children driving vehicles. Enough is enough.
dang 6y ago
That's so far from true that I would love to see links to the posts that made you conclude it. People tend to either imagine "HN bans all politics" (if they would prefer more) or "HN has become overrun by politics" (if they would prefer less). Sometimes they even simultaneously prefer more politics (of the kind they support) and less politics (of the kind they oppose). There's something for everyone to dislike, and the mind seems to find it irresistible to connect the dots into a picture of moderator bias (always, of course, a bias opposed to what it would prefer). If you or anyone would like to understand how we approach the problem of submissions with political overlap, I've written a lot about it: 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.... Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, if you think HN has gotten more political lately. If you or anyone takes a look at those past explanations and has a question that's not answered there, I'd like to know what it is. If anyone knows a better solution, I'd really like to know what it is. Just make sure you've familiarized yourself with the material first, because if it's something simple like "just ban politics" or "just allow everything", I've answered many times already why that won't work.

Quite right. I propose immediately banning any further stories about children driving vehicles. Enough is enough.

dang 6y ago

That's so far from true that I would love to see links to the posts that made you conclude it. People tend to either imagine "HN bans all politics" (if they would prefer more) or "HN has become overrun by politics" (if they would prefer less). Sometimes they even simultaneously prefer more politics (of the kind they support) and less politics (of the kind they oppose). There's something for everyone to dislike, and the mind seems to find it irresistible to connect the dots into a picture of moderator bias (always, of course, a bias opposed to what it would prefer). If you or anyone would like to understand how we approach the problem of submissions with political overlap, I've written a lot about it: 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.... Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, if you think HN has gotten more political lately. If you or anyone takes a look at those past explanations and has a question that's not answered there, I'd like to know what it is. If anyone knows a better solution, I'd really like to know what it is. Just make sure you've familiarized yourself with the material first, because if it's something simple like "just ban politics" or "just allow everything", I've answered many times already why that won't work.