Tell HN: SV Doublethink
HN&#x27;s clearly stated and often-reiterated purpose is for content&#x2F;discussion that &quot;gratifies one&#x27;s intellectual curiosity&quot; [1][2].<p>There are some politics topics that could be gratifying of intellectual curiosity in theory, but are not in practice because people with the strongest reactions&#x2F;staunchest positions on either side of the topic will dominate the discussion.<p>In other cases, such topics are introduced when people have an axe to grind, so they bring a heavily partisan or charged-up tone to the topic, and thus an intellectually gratifying discussion of the topic never has a chance to get started.<p>There are plenty of other places on the internet for people who want to have impassioned debates about the political outrage du jour.<p>HN is still a place where interesting discussions can be had about some controversial topics, particularly when they&#x27;re about new emerging phenomena.<p>But it&#x27;s never going to solve the biggest problems of the world, or settle the most vexed arguments in the daily news cycle or the U.S. presidential cycle.<p>HN is just designed for different things, and it works well by keeping it that way.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=gratifies intellectual curiosity&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;prefix&amp;page=0&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=gratifies intellectual cur...</a>