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Comment by joshdavham | Hacker News Reader

Regarding flagging: I think the worry is that, with all the political news constantly generated by Donald in the white house, HN might get submerged by politics constantly rather than the hacker-related stuff we all come here for.

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That and the discussions are basically devoid of any new info or insight. If you were to take a random comment from each of these threads, youd probably have a hard time telling which came from where.

True. This post is just being used as a reason to continue previous threads with very little connection to the submission. I am of two minds on this. The first is 'I want my life to be about cool tech and interesting ideas' and the second is 'This is a critical moment in history so people need to discuss it more than anything else'. At this exact moment I lean towards the latter so I think it is, unfortunately, important to get everyone out into discussion and action even in discussion forums like HN.

> This is a critical moment in history so people need to discuss it more than anything else

You may be correct on this, but I'm trying to keep in mind that we still have 4 more years of this and I think this may sorta be the new normal for the time being. I'd hate to see HN get distracted by every new drama Donald gets himself involved in till 2029.

The mods here are some of the wisest people I know and I don't think they would let that happen.

I think that a big part of why this is a critical moment is because what is going on isn't just political drama and isn't just a distraction.

I disagree. The majority of HN readers are Americans and a vocal and active subset don’t like seeing articles which are critical of their “great” nation.

I respect your opinion, but as a non-American myself (Canadian), I also really don't like having my feed filled with whatever the last drama was that Donald stirred up. HN for me is an escape from other news outlets.

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