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Just a gentle reminder (until dang gets here) that HN usually lets sufficiently big political news pass even if it's likely to generate lots of heat and little light.

I've already erased several snarky, gloating replies because I would like to see discussion of this proceed in something like a civil manner.

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Unfortunately, the HN conversation structure, while great for technical discussions, does not function well for political discussions.

I wish there were a similar site for reasonable political debate, but the moderation required would probably be too expensive.

Could you elaborate on that point about structure? I’m curious what you mean.

I mean the tree structure, the crowd-sourced moderation (flagging and downvotes), and promoting/hiding content based on votes.

When the topic isn't controversial, that all tends to promote the best comments.

But when the topic is controversial, it simply makes one point of view dominant. (The "hivemind" as redditors say.)

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