@dang - This US GDP figures post [1] is an example of the "increasingly tolerated politics" to which I was referring.
You claimed that politics isn't becoming increasingly tolerated, that it is merely a misperception.
That post is itself inherently (US) political. The GDP isn't posted here every quarter, so the posting of this one is a political statement.
Note also almost every top level comment is referring to (US president) Biden and the political nature of whether the US or isn't technically in recession; further evidence that it is a political post and a tolerance of politics.
It may be true that complaints about the increasingly political nature of HN are old. That can be true even if HN is slowly and steadily tolerating more politics. The former doesn't discount the latter. In fact a slow increase of political stories would lead to a long slow drip of people complaining about it, since it's increasing from a very low base.
You claimed that politics isn't becoming increasingly tolerated, that it is merely a misperception.
That post is itself inherently (US) political. The GDP isn't posted here every quarter, so the posting of this one is a political statement.
Note also almost every top level comment is referring to (US president) Biden and the political nature of whether the US or isn't technically in recession; further evidence that it is a political post and a tolerance of politics.
It may be true that complaints about the increasingly political nature of HN are old. That can be true even if HN is slowly and steadily tolerating more politics. The former doesn't discount the latter. In fact a slow increase of political stories would lead to a long slow drip of people complaining about it, since it's increasing from a very low base.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32263444