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Ask HN: Why do DOGE stories never make it to the frontpage?

16 points Kapura | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 1.43s | source

This morning I saw a news story that seemed pretty important for tech workers to be aware of [1]. I went to submit, and I was taken to a page where the post was already marked as "flagged" despite having 400+ upvotes in the 4 hours since original submission. However, the post had been flagged, so I was unable to see it on the front page. Who makes the decisions about what is getting flagged, and why does it seem that none of the really important DOGE news is allowed to surface?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691142#43692607

1. pvg ◴[15 Apr 25 16:00 UTC] No.43694754[source]▶
Who makes the decisions about what is getting flagged

Users flag things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43227619

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624035

a news story that seemed pretty important for tech workers to be aware of

That's not really a driving principle of HN - it doesn't actually work like that. It doesn't entirely not-work like that but it mostly doesn't work like that.