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I’m glad those incendiary articles are kept off of the main page, because they are available everywhere else on the Internet.

Allowing them here would likely have a negative snowball effect.

Sure, but GP said "most immediately important stories bubble up to the top".

Trasmatta said important stories.

I didn't say I never read any other news source. I just try to avoid them on a daily basis because they're almost never actionable, and just make me depressed and unable to function. If there's something that's immediately actionable, then I find it will generally bubble up somewhere like Hacker News.