Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
I need to preface this by saying I voted for Jill Stein.<p>You&#x27;re right that HN should be a place for intellectual curiosity and substantive comments. But here&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve seen in the past year:<p>* Flagrantly allow anti-prop-8 posts and submissions to assist in the smearing of Brendan Eich.<p>* Flagrantly allow pro-clinton posts and link submissions to thrive on HN.<p>* Never step-in to stop downvoting brigades on pro-conservative&#x2F;libertarian&#x2F;tea party posts.<p>* After unpopular (with silicon valley) president is elected, ban political conversations on the site.<p>I won&#x27;t call you biased, because you&#x27;ve been a damn good mod, but this is probably your worst decision, because it looks like sour-grapes-in-retrospect.<p>Perhaps you&#x27;re doing it because the pro-clinton camp is actually becoming too toxic to tolerate. Perhaps you&#x27;re doing it to avoid the 4chan brigade from promoting Trump. Either way, this is a site full of people skilled at reading between the lines, and, correct or not, this action doesn&#x27;t look like a way of promoting reasonable discussion.