Comment by davidw

I'm quite interested in economics and politics, thanks, I just think they are likely to drag this site down because they start attracting people who are uninterested in the 'hacker' stuff (and ultimately outnumber us by orders of magnitude, because politics are of interest to most people), and result in long, drawn out and often nasty discussions.

Look at the posting history at the following link. It seems we already have one person who seems to come around mostly for this type of article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kingkongrevenge