I wish this was still the case. Talking about politics used to be avoided here, and certainly engaging in reddit-tier partisan arguing was extremely rare. Now there are political posts almost every day that have comment sections full of mud slinging. I'm guilty of it too, even as recently as today, so I'm not taking a holier than thou position, but man those threads are just incredibly strong flamebait.
There has been a noticeable shift in the way HN engages with political topics over the last couple of years, and more recently in particular.
I wish this was still the case. Talking about politics used to be avoided here, and certainly engaging in reddit-tier partisan arguing was extremely rare. Now there are political posts almost every day that have comment sections full of mud slinging. I'm guilty of it too, even as recently as today, so I'm not taking a holier than thou position, but man those threads are just incredibly strong flamebait.
There has been a noticeable shift in the way HN engages with political topics over the last couple of years, and more recently in particular.