Even for the political discussions, HN still has the least-bad discussions on the internet, which I think is why people keep engaging in them. The only discussi

Even for the political discussions, HN still has the least-bad discussions on the internet, which I think is why people keep engaging in them. The only discussions that really bother me are the reddit style stuff Cough... https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=amichail https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=amichail You can often spot the impact of "why is the sky blue" type posts in that there are no discussion threads, it's just a long list of one-of "Rayleigh scattering" replies