"And please don't take this as an attempt at some sort of great schism of the audience here, it's not. I'll still surf this site no matter how popular NHN gets.

"And please don't take this as an attempt at some sort of great schism of the audience here, it's not. I'll still surf this site no matter how popular NHN gets." It didn't seem to me a knee jerk reaction to the quality of submissions, but rather a public service because people are understandably complaining about political posts being made that are not "hacker news".