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Sorry, even after looking at those links and rereading your edited comment, I'm not sure I follow: How did it make things worse? Was it that "nothing even remotely political" was just way too broad?

>>yjftsj+(OP)
It turned every thread into a political battle and made every political side 10x madder at us than they already were.

>>dang+h
Huh, that's unintuitive; thanks for explaining.

Edit: Oh, I wonder if it's a spillover effect; the amount of politics doesn't change, so having those threads on topic avoids spill over into other threads

>>yjftsj+J1
It doesn't seem counterintuitive to me. Of course people on a discussion forum who want to talk about a thing and are suddenly told they cannot talk about that thing are going to be upset.

>>dang+h
It turned every thread into a political battle and made every political side 10x madder at us than they already were.

given that HN isn't an analogue for the world at large, one wonders if this lesson learned on HN translates at all to what may happen elsewhere as a result of the ongoing corporate 'de-platforming' campaigns.