> burying anything controversial means that only vanilla topics will ever be discussed in any depth. You place too much weight on reading the "front page" .. t

> burying anything controversial means that only vanilla topics will ever be discussed in any depth. You place too much weight on reading the "front page" .. that's community and mod curated toward the core ethos of the site. HN has a wealth of ongoing in depth discussion of all manner of things that often don't make "front page", you can see these if you (say) browse or follow new comments or active threads * https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments * https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active