I think the users on Hacker News who have been here longer than I have, and who have more average karma per comment than I have, may be in general agreement tha

I think the users on Hacker News who have been here longer than I have, and who have more average karma per comment than I have, may be in general agreement that political discussions generally don't belong on Hacker News. Perhaps I should follow their example and relentlessly flag any submission to HN from the petitions.whitehouse.gov domain, which mostly seems to attract crap proposals anyhow. The Hacker News FAQ http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html distills the basic rules into a simple statement: "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."