Hacker News Guidelines

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

I'd welcome a firmer hand on eliminating these submissions.

The solution space for this is pretty small, meaning that most things that feel like they might work (e.g. just ban politics) don't actually work. But the answer we've converged on over the years is pretty stable: some political overlap is inevitable and ok, but the articles should be ones that can support an intellectually curious conversation rather than just garden-variety flamewar.

Here are some past explanations of how we approach this. If anyone reads those and still has a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959679 (July 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 (Nov 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 (May 2018)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Given the advancements of LLMS, have you given thought to automating some moderation to tell the user they're about to leave a predictable repetitive flamewar comment? Ie, a cleverer version of https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...