More than annoying, this forum has repeatedly shown that it is incapable of holding a civil discussion about politics. Every thread about politics quickly descends into a flame war. After many, many examples I am quite convinced that politics should be a banned topic on HN because of the negative effect these threads have on the community.
I don’t love it myself, but I find this community to be like minded enough, and dissimilar enough to any I’ve ever encountered IRL. Due to that, I don’t mind seeing how other people here feel about certain things. We live in a rapidly changing political climate and at times I just need to know how other sane people feel about the situations. It might be US centric, for that I could see how it’s exhausting for outsiders, but this community skews that way so it makes sense.
For the most part, debating different opinions in this community still feels productive and I have not seen too many times where it’s completely devolved to indecency
I say that as a moderate/liberal Texan which tends to put me in the ultra far right compared to some of the more Bay Area/California liberal centric ideologies that I’ve seen dominate here
