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>>notion+(OP)
It made things worse and we ended the experiment after a couple days. I don't have links handy right now but may try to dig them up later*. It turns out that there's no faster way to politicize everything than to try something that simplistic. Wherever the optimum is for regulating the intense pressures HN is under, it's much less obvious than that.

It was a success in the sense that we learned a lot. If anyone wants to know about that, a lot of it is in the explanations here:

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

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490.

These explanations have become pretty stable by now—stable enough that I repeat myself incessantly: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

*Edit: here's where we called it off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251

>>dang+c7
As an Australian, I see most political HN discussion revolving around US interests. For the most part this is to be expected, but in the rare cases that other country's politics enter HN (particularly new laws that affect tech), there seems to be a heavy bias toward comparison to the US's laws, so much so, that I think I understand more of the US laws than I do my own! Again, this is probably to be expected with the big tech companies largely residing in SV...

But it sure does stand out when HN comments are made with the assumption that the fellow HN readership is US. Any time I've tried to highlight how this looks from the outside it's generally met with downvotes, to the point that I self censor comments that I otherwise feel could have enriched this global community.

So, maybe there is the chance in your comments @dang to make a reminder that it serves a global community? It might help soften feelings of any comments that are heavily partisan.

>>cmroan+So
Fellow Australian, I even find myself wording things from the perspective that I am from the US by accident. I feel so part of the discourse thanks to technology and my line of work that I forget these aren't always my problems.

>>ehnto+It
Australian politics has been pretty boring of late.

While not as polarising as a Jim Jordan or Ted Cruz, people like Christopher Pyne and Paul Keating made Australian politics mildly interesting. We seem to have two very centrist parties right now which is a welcome change.

>>dwd+SC
Don't jinx it, I don't like the guy but I'm looking forward to an Australian prime minister lasting a full term in office. 2007-2016 aus politics was a blood sport, make politics boring again.

>>flukus+QF
I was surprised to see Michael McCormack in charge this week. I always thought Morrison was acting PM?

I’ll get my coat.

>>darkte+721
As much as I dislike Morrison, he's done an alright job keeping the economy ticking over by throwing money at it as needed. Probably better him than a Labor Gov as you would have had nothing but endless politicking about them turning the country into a welfare state, etc, etc.

You wouldn't have noticed McCormack in charge but for him opening his mouth and spouting some retarded crap (about COVID19) and some very poorly thought out and articulated comments on BLM vs the Capital insurrection. The only person I think mostly has the right of it as far as comparing the two and the police responses was Sam Harris from his last podcast.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/230-insurrection-lies/

>>dwd+2P3
Completely agree. Also very proud of my home state Premier, Dan Andrews, for showing backbone when people needed it. Don’t agree with everything he did without qualification, but I’d vote for him again.

All in all Aus put in a solid performance with this pandemic - one of the best, I reckon, and markedly better than that of Japan, where I currently reside.

>>darkte+vL5
Dan did alright. My parents (lifelong Liberal voters) had nothing but praise for him and his daily stand ups. He did well to bring it back from the brink at the time and the rest of the country got a good lesson in how quickly it can take off. Dan just needs to stop doing dumb shit like sign up for Belt and Road funding.

I'm in Qld and the response/outcome so far has been better than New Zealand's (with comparable population size).