> If they want to keep the gamming forum on topic they can ban all political discussion.
This isn't about being on topic, as it's a sitewide rule which applies even in the open-topic forums on the site.
So, criticizing it as not the best way to keep things on-topic is missing the point.
> As a comparison, HN has a ban in political discussion.
No, it doesn't, though it did as a quite controversial experiment for a few days a while ago. (If it did, this discussion, which is 100% political, would be banned.)
This isn't about being on topic, as it's a sitewide rule which applies even in the open-topic forums on the site.
So, criticizing it as not the best way to keep things on-topic is missing the point.
> As a comparison, HN has a ban in political discussion.
No, it doesn't, though it did as a quite controversial experiment for a few days a while ago. (If it did, this discussion, which is 100% political, would be banned.)