Comment by Bartweiss

> opening the floodgates on politics will have the cost of reducing the utility of HN

I'm not apolitical, far from it, but that doesn't mean I want all the spaces I use to be politicized. And when HN does veer into politics, it almost always lowers the level of both insight and courtesy several notches from discussions of other topics.

I'm relieved to see politics stay tangential, because I think the alternative is not HN gaining insight on politics but losing it on everything else.