I mostly agree with you, however I note that another person has posted exactly the opposite comment. I find it interesting that people looking at exactly the sa

I mostly agree with you, however I note that another person has posted exactly the opposite comment. I find it interesting that people looking at exactly the same site can have such different reads of it. Overall though, I'd say we're all right, in the sense that most partisan content gets flagged, and presumably each is more in tune with the stuff they agree with more. I end up commenting a lot on political threads, but overall, I'm happy HN keeps them in a tight leash and usually flags/buries them, because they really don't add much to the site. The only exception I'd say is that HN is still basically the only place where one can have a (semi)adult discussion about many polarizing issues, without one side being banned entirely. Compare it to reddit, where anything outside the groupthink is not allowed to live at all. Possibly it's the threat of having the thread shut down entirely that keeps people on both sides more civil