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>>pessim+(OP)
Is everything culture war all the time now on this site? Every post becomes a stupid comment section where we'd be better off getting an LLM to write the comments for us.

Here it's people trying to insert their affirmative action narratives and also rant about California a bit (in a backhanded way).

We can do better.

>>throwa+8d
I flagged that top level affirmative action comment, and I hope more people do. Contentless flamewars about unrelated culture war policies are boring, and are a negative contribution to the discussion.

>>lostdo+Uj
> unrelated culture war policies

It seems pretty relevant to me. The comment was also positive, applauding this policy for actually trying to identify improvishment.

I don't see how you could describe this point as "culture war", "negative", or "flamewar". I suspect you just don't agree.

What's unfortunate about HN is that when enough people disagree, those ideas go away and others aren't aware they are even being expressed. The intent of these moderation features is to remove low quality content, but it's almost always a filter for ideology and sociability.

I can't count the number of times I have been reading an interesting comment or submission, and suddenly its flagged and completely invisible.