Comment by maybeOneDay
3 years ago
The first guideline disagrees with your premise
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
I agree and personally appreciate, let's say, "oddball" non-tech topics; for example, the article about Merlin earlier today, or the one about mushroom cultivation from earlier in the week.
But I put it to you that some topics -- such as US politics -- are less likely to gratify one's intellectual curiosity than to provoke reaction and negative emotion.
I would think the consensus is that this is not the place.
Already sometimes seemingly less-incendiary topics get a bit distracting, which is not too bad within limits but it's probably not an improvement to go that direction intentionally.
No mater how good their skillz, the best hackers don't troll.