To me, your poll choices don't seem totally binary. I'd take the hidden third option: "I wish there were fewer NSA-related stories, but I'll accept that they sh

To me, your poll choices don't seem totally binary. I'd take the hidden third option: "I wish there were fewer NSA-related stories, but I'll accept that they should be allowed to rank naturally." Generally speaking, NSA-related topics tend to do well here. This is a free market, more or less (presuming, as seems reasonable, that any gaming or rigging of votes is an inconsequential factor in this case). If the market seems to want NSA-related topics, then that's what it upvotes, and that's what it gets. I'm fine with that dynamic, even if I'm a little tired of the topic myself. I'm not apathetic to the topic; quite the contrary. But I feel as though it's been crowding out other topics on HN, and I wish that weren't the case. But I wouldn't go so far as to actively limit the topic through some sort of filtering mechanism. In general, I find this community's concern with the topic healthy and commendable. It's a serious fucking issue, and it's not being made a serious enough issue by the court of public opinion. But I get tired of the endless rehash and remixing of the same coverage. I'd gladly cast a million upvotes, if I had them, to any HN submission that proposes to do something about the NSA surveillance.