thanks dang. Was thinking about y'all when I added that "<3" edit. I appreciate you.
> What made you think there was?
I recalled a post way back when trump was voted in, asking the community not to speak about politics. (I'm sure I'm misrecalling the specifics, but that's the fuzzy take-home that's nestled in my mind after all these years.)
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Ah yes, found it. Apparently it was just one week, but I remembered it as a standing request :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
There's no such preference. What made you think there was?
The question of political topics on HN is a hard one because some political stories are on topic, some are off topic, and even the on-topic ones tend to turn into flamewars. I've written a lot about how we approach this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, which shows how far back political discussion goes on HN, as well as the argument about politics on HN.
If anyone reads those explanations and still has a question that isn't answered there, I'd like to know what it is.