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Sprinkling a little Twitter pixie dust on an infographic doesn't make a pure politics story germane to HN. Flagged. Please do likewise.

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We disagree; there's very few other situations where you can get a quantitative look at which issues have mindshare. Most of the time the reporters get complete veto power.

We saw a rare opportunity to apply technology to something it doesn't normally get to be applied to. Seems pretty germane to HN to me.

You know how you can tell it's a crappy HN submission? More than half the comments are about drug legalization. This is a Reddit politics story, not an HN story.

This isn't a value judgement on your infographic. It's just the wrong venue for it.

Tend to disagree - comments are on that topic because of the content of the post.

I'd think the relevance of the venue is determined by the level of comments and votes from the audience, the beauty of social sites. While I agree it doesn't follow the typical content of HN, if the audience up-votes then so be it.

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