It is neither desirable nor possible to exclude political topics from HN completely. At the same time, it's important that the site be protected from being overrun and dominated by political topics. Lots of explanation of how we handle this can be found at these links, if anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
Well, Sandy Hook did happen. And while NS 1 was blown up, besides a repitition of all argents we had when it was blown up, Hersh's blog post does not provide anything new, does it?
It is neither desirable nor possible to exclude political topics from HN completely. At the same time, it's important that the site be protected from being overrun and dominated by political topics. Lots of explanation of how we handle this can be found at these links, if anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
* here's pg making the same point 10 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426