Agreed, single purpose politically-charged accounts add a lot of noise, and really put a damper on this community&#x27;s discussion. HN guidelines say to generally avoid submitting off-topic items such as political commentary, so shouldn&#x27;t that same guideline apply to comments?<p>Besides, one could write a &#x27;bash&#x27; script to do the same thing. 1) Find links to negative sentiment news. 2) Find key data and exaggerate in negative direction. 3) Splatter links and data on any HN discussion containing &quot;China&quot;