HN is one of the leading tech news sites. The recent events clearly demonstrate that citizens need to be more involved in the political process, or at least less blasé. As leaders of the tech community, do we not have an obligation to act responsibly, to be informed? I don't believe a shift in HN to be more political would be a shift toward lower quality content, but instead a shift for the better, onto more important things.
So, if articles do not appear here and get lots of upvotes, we are not informed or involved?
Do you think there would be any space left on the front page for startups & tech if the site focused on politics? Many political issues (and there are a lot of them) are objectively far more important than tech & startups, so it would be logical for them to crowd out the former content.
