Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)
It made things worse and we ended the experiment after a couple days.  I don&#x27;t have links handy right now but may try to dig them up later*. It turns out that there&#x27;s no faster way to politicize everything than to try something that simplistic. Wherever the optimum is for regulating the intense pressures HN is under, it&#x27;s much less obvious than that.<p>It was a success in the sense that we learned a lot. If anyone wants to know about that, a lot of it is in the explanations here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment&amp;query=political overlap by:dang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;so...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comment&amp;storyText=false&amp;prefix=false&amp;page=0&amp;query=primarily test by:dang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comme...</a><p>Some good threads to start with might be <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21607844" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21607844</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22902396" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22902396</a>.<p>These explanations have become pretty stable by now—stable enough that I repeat myself incessantly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=by:dang politic&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a><p>*Edit: here&#x27;s where we called it off: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13131251" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13131251</a>