Whatever metric you use to deny certain sources, should be used on this one, but it's not. Especially now that it's proven that they are both ideologically & financially captured. There's no cause here, I am asking you to be consistent. You have changed policies in the past, but now that's not happening?
I thought I just answered this question? Let me try to clarify...
We don't ban domains that regularly produce good material for HN. We do ban domains that are primarily ideological and almost never produce good material for HN. The definition of "good material" is basically "gratifies intellectual curiosity", as mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
There are a lot of sites that are strongly political and don't produce any articles that support good HN threads (or only very rarely do). Those we ban, regardless of their political orientation. But if any of them started publishing articles about newly discovered Chopin pieces, or insects relying on sounds made by plants, we'd unban that site. The biggest thing HN needs is more good (for HN) articles.
I'm not sure what policies you're saying we changed in the past?
