[jdminhbg]

When the Snowden leaks first dropped, the front page was absolutely overwhelmed with NSA news, to the exclusion of nearly everything else. Would not be possible to keep that level of interest up without making this is an exclusively NSA/surveillance-driven site.

[Houshalter]

IIRC the mods also soft banned it because of that. So posts with the word "NSA" in the title get penalized and ranked much lower than other posts. Hence the shrinking.

[dang]

We did that for a while but stopped already years ago. It was only needed until the story barrage leveled off.