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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:40PM (#25785825)
Huh, that's unintuitive; thanks for explaining.

Edit: Oh, I wonder if it's a spillover effect; the amount of politics doesn't change, so having those threads on topic avoids spill over into other threads

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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by tshaddox on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:49PM (#25785904)
It doesn't seem counterintuitive to me. Of course people on a discussion forum who want to talk about a thing and are suddenly told they cannot talk about that thing are going to be upset.
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