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115 points perihelions | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 06:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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potato-peeler ◴[03 Jul 25 10:12 UTC] No.44453455[source]▶
Meta comment: have noticed some posts get flagged. Is it because they are political?
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bananapub ◴[03 Jul 25 11:43 UTC] No.44454002[source]▶
no, there's just a concerted flagging campaign for anything about atrocities perpetrated by the US government.
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IAmGraydon ◴[03 Jul 25 16:19 UTC] No.44456612[source]▶
Why does everyone want to invent a conspiracy these days? There's no "concerted flagging campaign". We, the users, are here to uphold the content policies of HN, and we do so by voting to flag posts that violate it. The content policy is what it is, and it doesn't play favorites. There have been MANY political posts in recent times that have not been flagged. Here's a handful in just the last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434239

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johnnyanmac ◴[03 Jul 25 23:54 UTC] No.44460091[source]▶
>uphold the content policies of HN

This follows the content policies of HN.

It clearly does play favorites when we are hearing the first firsthand account of an "unsaleable prison", but users will vote on the 20th AI article posted here.

Also, I expect better from the HN community when it comes to data. 5 (4, in reality. Because one of your links is flagged now) articles in a week not flagged for a forum that receives hundreds of submissions per day does not even meet the minimum statistical threshold.

I've been taking glances at the front page and top daily submissions for a week and was disenheartened that there were no articles on the Big Beautiful Bill that gained traction, or weren't flagged. I'm not particularly surprised at this point given historical trends, but a shame nonetheless.

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1. IAmGraydon ◴[04 Jul 25 05:32 UTC] No.44461394[source]▶
>Also, I expect better from the HN community when it comes to data. 5 (4, in reality. Because one of your links is flagged now) articles in a week not flagged for a forum that receives hundreds of submissions per day does not even meet the minimum statistical threshold.

I really have to question if you ever look at your own biases, because you just made up a story that agrees with your preexisting viewpoint. For the links I posted, I literally just searched "Trump" and took a few of the many unflagged posts from that search. It was in no way exhaustive. Why did you assume it was? It's quite easy to see that in a week, there are literally hundreds of unflagged political posts. My intention was to post an example, not a list of all of them.