[Judgmentality]

Another political post got bumped off the front page again.

Not that anyone gives a shit what I think, but it seems like there should just be a filter for politics on this site. That way the people who want to talk about it can, and the people that don't can ignore it. Clearly the upvotes suggests people are interested in these topics, not to mention the actual debates in comment sections about how they're being moderated.

[dkjaudyeqooe]

Would need category tags for each post, but actually would be an awesome feature applicable to all sorts of posts.

For instance AI speculation threads are really, really tiresome. It's easy to get tricked into reading such threads because the discussion is often off topic to the linked article.

[Judgmentality]

I get what you're getting at, but that's not actually what I'm advocating for here.

I'm pointing out that multiple times a day a political post gets bounced off the front page, and it's frustrating that the conversations are being quashed. I'd just like to be able to talk about the stuff we know people want to talk about (upvotes are the simplest metric we have for this). And there's a very simple binary filter we can apply that costs very little overhead in terms of UX and engineering.

If I wanted to go somewhere else I would. I'm suggesting how we make this site better for users, or at least a sizable amount of them. And it would make almost no difference to the users who'd like to just ignore it. You can even have it off by default so only logged in members are able to see political posts and even then only opt-in.

I have zero expectation of this ever happening.

[dkjaudyeqooe]

> I get what you're getting at, but that's not actually what I'm advocating for here.

I know, I was just floating an idea.

> it's frustrating that the conversations are being quashed

I'm very much right there with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993029

[cmurf]

The silent ideological and political battle of flagging uncomfortable truths is trampling curiosity. Interesting how they get a way with violating the guidelines, and yet people who want to have a conversation are accused of and sanctioned for it.

The small mistake you make is assuming the users doing the flagging merely want to ignore it. They don't want anyone participating in it. The very topic is persona non grata. The guideline itself is written in newspeak.

[TylerE]

At sometime yall have to stop pretending that this is something that will just go away if you ignore it long enough. This administration wilm have surely life altering consequences that will persist for decades. This isn’t reasonable people disagreeing. This is insurrection.

[archagon]

There kind of is. Most political threads end up flagged, not dead, and you can see them on the real front page at https://news.ycombinator.com/active.

[cma]

YCombinator is probably involved in this stuff to some degree; Peter Thiel was part of of yc for a while and Garry Tan has been pushing stuff closer to Thiel/Moldbug's ideology in SF and worked for Palantir.

[e40]

Elon is a speaker at the Spring YC conference!

[reaperducer]

It's not about politics. It's fanatics who think the leader of their tribe needs them to defend him.

[throw16180339]

It wouldn't surprise me if Elon is using bots, he's certainly petty enough to do so.