Sound familiar? Those are just the first few I found. In those arguments, pg was in favor of
keeping politicized stories if they were intellectually
interesting and not just about politics:
We've kept the original rule that a political story on HN needs to have something intellectually interesting, but we've also tightened it. For example, when a thread turns into a political flamewar, we moderate it more than pg used to. There were many past submissions that neither users nor moderators would allow today, like these from ten years ago:
2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243561
2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320152
2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485
Sound familiar? Those are just the first few I found. In those arguments, pg was in favor of keeping politicized stories if they were intellectually interesting and not just about politics:
2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243614
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349168
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196756
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=94861
2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403775
We've kept the original rule that a political story on HN needs to have something intellectually interesting, but we've also tightened it. For example, when a thread turns into a political flamewar, we moderate it more than pg used to. There were many past submissions that neither users nor moderators would allow today, like these from ten years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=94840
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208518
Just look at those threads! (Edit: also interesting how the item IDs more than doubled in the first half of 2008.)