| I don't think that's a fair representation of what the mods concluded. 'dang summarized the results of the detox week and has made some recent comments on it as well. Here are some, with some identifiable snippets only so it's not a list of links. I encourage you to read the comments themselves. They don't all directly address this, but I think they all shed some light on the topic. --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969 There's no satisfying anybody about this: not the readers who want more politics, not the readers who want less, and certainly not the partisans on an issue. --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522433 There's a lot more politics on HN right now than there usually is, which is appropriate since it reflects what's going on right now. --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969 When there's a deluge of political stories, as in the last couple days, users heavily flag most of them. But there have still been plenty of major threads spending plenty of time on the front page. That's the status quo for HN: most politics are off topic, but not all. It's a delicate balance and an important one. Letting politics overrun this site would kill it. --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463480 On downsides of the Political Detox Week experiment: there are two comments in the thread. |
I am not in an extreme position -- namely to deny that political posts don't have any relevance. That's not true. But I feel those discussions have either rarely been productive, or have way too many comments for somebody to extract a useful gist, or both.