Comment by dang

Arguments about HN getting too political / ruined by politics go back almost as far as HN itself:

2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278434 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=208518

Just look at those threads! (Edit: also interesting how the item IDs more than doubled in the first half of 2008.)