[erik_seaberg]

It preserves HN and LWN as useful forums for purely technical discussions with high signal/noise, basically. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

[no_wizard]

The spirit of this and its practicality in every case isn’t the same thing at all.

I don’t think a supposedly meritocratic community would want to associate with racist or prejudiced ideas that by their very nature fly in the face of this