Some of the long-time users here think that it's important to flag submissions that are mostly about politics and that don't encourage the thoughtful discussion

Some of the long-time users here think that it's important to flag submissions that are mostly about politics and that don't encourage the thoughtful discussion of deeply interesting stories that they hope characterizes Hacker News. I have to agree. What's about "politics" mainly and what is about politics just incidentally is a judgment call, but I have been convinced by listening to participants here who have been here longer than the 1970 days that I have been here that it is helpful to the community to flag most new submissions that deal with politics. Those submissions only rarely generate informative, thoughtful discussions.