[xerophtye]

Nope, I see NSA news every other day on HN and it is getting rather annoying

[Houshalter]

Supposedly there is a filter already on HN for NSA articles, each vote only counts as 1/3 of a vote if the title contains the string "nsa", severely penalizing those articles.

[tempodox]

If that's true, I understand why I don't understand the HN sort order.

[RussianCow]

I think that's the joke. :)