You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. The site guidelines ask you not to do that (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). We actually ban accounts that won't stop using HN this way, because it's destructive of the intellectual curiosity this site exists for. It's fine to comment on a politicized topic, of course. What's not fine is to use HN primarily for political arguments—regardless of which politics you favor. If you'd review the rules and please fix this, we'd appreciate it.

Also, please don't be uncivil in comments here, even when another comment is wrong or annoying. ("What are you talking about?" is the sort of nasty elbow that can and should just be edited out of a post.)

> You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle.

Not really. It's an ongoing discussion sparked by the number of articles that appear on the front page that are deeply related to the economics of the tech industry. It interests me. If genuine comments responding to articles from a particular and consistent point of view are unwanted I can stop.

Everytime I log in something like this is at the top of the front page. Even now this is there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804202

I understand your concerns and as it's not my platform fair enough. Will do better.

> If you'd review the rules

Will do

> please don't be uncivil in comments here

Fair and noted.

I appreciate the polite response very much. The issue isn't this discussion or any one discussion, it's the pattern of using HN primarily for political arguments. The test here is that word 'primarily'. This is the only way we've found to draw a line that fairly balances the concerns: that on the one hand many on-topic stories have political aspects, but on the other hand political flamewars will burn everything up if you let them... so we can't let them.

I've posted other explanations of our thinking about this, in case it's of interest: https://hn.algolia.com/?amp;sort=byDate&dateRange=all&am....