It's not possible to sustain in this climate. If the parent is going to bother messing with an aggregator of this nature in today's particularly belligerent po

It's not possible to sustain in this climate. If the parent is going to bother messing with an aggregator of this nature in today's particularly belligerent political atmosphere, they should capitulate and make it narrow. Plausibly build one for each major group (ie one for Democrats and Republicans). Swim with the echo chambers, if you want your product to be successful. You can be aspirational about creating a calm, well behaved political environment online that brings everyone together in reasoned discussion, and your product is guaranteed to fail. The relative absence of politics in HN discussions is one of the key reasons it still works so well as a community with so much diversity of thought. Especially as things have changed increasingly in the past decade, as political vitriol has gotten worse by the year. I can hear the retort: yeah but that's just giving in to everything that's wrong today, you should resist! Un huh, good luck with that. It's a nice sentiment and it will not work out. It's like waving your fists furiously at a tsunami wave as it drowns and breaks you. It will overwhelm your best efforts and you will suffer immensely for it.