[AlexandrB]

> I didn't intend to shut down discussion. I was countering the flood of commentary around what I perceived as issues ancillary to the actual topic.

I interpreted GPs comment as an indictment of NH's policy of banning political news items, not as blaming you for shutting down the current discussion.

[Can_Not]

I interpreted it as "don't shut down discussion with low effort comments like 'it doesn't scale'".