The low quality posts and low quality responses and them being flagged makes the users affected, to use the moderators' terminology, "activated". It's not conducive to maintaining the HN we know and love.

Also the site moderators have plainly said that moderating these controversial political threads is a strain on them. You may be enjoying yourself but someone else is paying a hefty price.

Far less concerned about ThE StReSs Of MoDeRaToRs and more concerned about legal citizens getting drug out of their home at gunpoint in front of their children.