"Generally discouraged: non-technical bitcoin issues"
I believe banning issues of politics and economics from development of a consensus and money system is going to lead in misguided directions where cryptographers design systems they don't understand and that are inherently not robust and flexible. Furthermore it leads to two separate communities - developers and the rest. Most of what's going on at the moment has to do with this. The social architecture doesn't work all that well. Most Bitcoin companies don't contribute to core, and core doesn't care about Bitcoin companies and users.