Comment by jameslk

The comments in the HN post you linked do a very good job of explaining why HN is working as expected when political posts get flagged

Quoting tptacek from your link: “Politics often literally prevents us from discussing technical stories, by forcing us to wade through banal political detritus to get to the comments that have anything to do with the technical issues.”

HN guidelines make it clear: “Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.”

It may be that there are politics in everything, but that doesn’t mean we need to discuss those politics here. Especially because those politics usually drown out the curiosity. Curiosity is what makes HN interesting for so many