I sense your frustration and I suspect that the Mods often wished everyone would respect the ideals of HN by following the submission guidelines - " What to Su

I sense your frustration and I suspect that the Mods often wished everyone would respect the ideals of HN by following the submission guidelines - " What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I wish HN would introduce a 'Reason for Flagging' button choice (Spam, Off-Topic, Flame-Bait, Other). Speaking generally, I only flag the most egregious examples of Spam or Self-Advertising submissions. Any political submissions, I simply skip viewing or clicking (submission rankings partially use the CTR weight) because I am almost certainly guaranteed to see comments that degenerate in to 4Chan or Reddit levels and that is not what I come to HN for.