Right. I'm not saying definitely no politics, but there's a ton of political content that is not really that interesting (like the two stories that were just on the front page about the US drone strike killing pine nut farmers in Afghanistan that are sliding down the ranking fast). It has been a growing trend. Maybe I spend too much time on the site, but I usually see most of the threads that get flagged/dead.

And I agree with my parent poster -- lobste.rs is a much better curated feed of interesting topics to me -- I'm not on it yet, because I sort of feel that I've made an investment here in the community.