When a new account shows up and posts only about one thing, and it's an inflammation point in a flamewar topic, that's using the site for ideological battle. There's inevitably overlap between political topics and other things on HN, but when people are using the site for its intended purpose—intellectual curiosity—they don't use it this way. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... for more explanation.