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[rubidium]

I wish I had the time to gather the data. Someone please do this. Make sure to normalize against total activity.

I'm a hn user since at least 9.8 years ago (my first HN handle was different than current, which is 7 years old).

To my impression as a relatively apolitical person, the site has become MUCH more political in the past year. I may be wrong in that though.

[jacquesm → rubidium]

> To my impression as a relatively apolitical person, the site has become MUCH more political in the past year. I may be wrong in that though.

It's an election year.

Some of the policies and statements on display are extremely divisive.

Divisiveness breeds discontent at all levels, discussion, intimidation, outright violence.

[pgodzin → rubidium]

The issues affecting the tech community seem to have gotten a lot more political in the past year as well. Immigration issues, net neutrality, surveillance, women and diversity issues have all been particularly politicized recently.

[marcosdumay → rubidium]

The entire world became much more political in the past year. Looks like 2017 will increase it even more.

[chillacy → rubidium]

HN comments are available as a public dataset in Google Bigquery, so you're perhaps 30 minutes away from an answer.