> There's a reason politics and tech gossip are where most HN comments go these days. This is a pretty mainstream site. HN is the digital water cooler. Rumors

> There's a reason politics and tech gossip are where most HN comments go these days. This is a pretty mainstream site. HN is the digital water cooler. Rumors are a kind of social currency, in the capital sense, in that it can be leveraged and has a time horizon for value of exchange, and in the timeliness/recency biased sense, as hot gossip is a form of information that wants to be free, which in this context means it has more value when shared, and that value is tapped into by doing so.