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That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking people to stick to the site guidelines. The rules don't stop applying when a topic is political—on the contrary, they apply more.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

We ban accounts that consistently disrespect those rules and ignore our requests to correct this. What else would we do? The alternative is to allow a minority of flamewarring users to destroy the entire commons for everybody.

As for 'sweeping dissent under the rug', that's not what we're doing at all. People with contrarian views and people with non-contrarian views both need to follow the rules here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html