Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

Last week was a black swan, and hence everyone wanted to know what was going on with the economy and Wall St., understandable.

Can we now get back to our regular programming and cease from submitting financial & political news? Thanks very much!

The fine folks at reddit, have 3 great sub-reddits if you are interested in reading more about:

Economics: http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/

Business: http://www.reddit.com/r/business/

Politics: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/

Thank you.

I totally agree that posts have lately strayed far from the original idea(as I understand) of this site.

Last week I was actually tempted to remove it from my RSS reader due to the flood of political and other news stories totally unrelated to startups/programming/hacking/etc.

We don't need another reddit/digg/...

Homograph fail.

On a site where items are simply voted up or down, items are promoted that have the greatest positive emotional impact to the mob. During this political season, this is going to be politics and finance.

You can't flag it. This is stuff that hackers are interested in as you can tell by simply looking at the number of comments and votes. The site is supposed to self-regulate, but no amount of pointing out that the system is flawed seems to make a difference. Instead, you'll get dinged for complaining.

Love the crowd. Love startups and hacking. Think the up-down voting paradigm in long-dead and not crazy about continuously getting into political discussions with people I'd rather be learning from.

Have you never considered that, the reason you even see these things in the first place is because people upvote them?

I mean, sure they are off-topic, but people are obviously reading them and liking it. Perhaps it's not so much the 'areas of topic' but the people, that is liked?

After all, this is a vastly different community to reddit.