Seems an understatement to simply describe the current political climate as an increase in "intensity". I think a mentally ill President on the verge of impeachment and a country on the verge of constitutional crisis is qualitatively different than anything that has been happening since the beginning of HN.
I don't think political discussion needs to be a frequent occurrence, but this outright immediate shutdown of anything ever related to politics when other links that are a lot less important (or not "deeply interesting", as the welcome page notes) dominate the front page as a matter of routine. Links which are often only tangentially related to hacking (at best), seems really odd.
I don't think political discussion needs to be a frequent occurrence, but this outright immediate shutdown of anything ever related to politics when other links that are a lot less important (or not "deeply interesting", as the welcome page notes) dominate the front page as a matter of routine. Links which are often only tangentially related to hacking (at best), seems really odd.