[dfundako]

I concur. I really enjoy reading the comments section on some websites because there is some very insightful discourse happening that offers counter-arguments to the points in the article. But I am thoroughly unimpressed with the HN community when I read the comments on any topic that can tangentially be related to politics or currently politicized topics (mostly US topics, like immigration, Repub vs Demo, Trump, etc.). Ones that come to mind recently are MSFT and ICE, Facebook and censorship, TSA, Amazon and AI. There is an immense amount of conversation that could happen and great insight can be shared from a community of extremely knowledgeable people, but within 2 hours of it making to the front page, the comments section is mostly light gray, double digit dead threads, and not much more comprehensible than a Buzzfeed comment section about the Kardashians.