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Gender and race issues frequently get flagged to death. Doesn't that take a collective? For example, elephantinthevalley got killed and reposted multiple times

• dang 11y ago
  Of course, but there are multiple collectives. On hot divisive issues, both sides routinely get flagged. Neither side is "the HN community", though each sees the other that way. That's not objective; it's a cognitive bias, and it leads people to get angrier at each other and at the community because they feel the community is against them. In reality, on most issues where society is divided, HN is also divided, with a few exceptions (like mass surveillance) where there's a fairly clear skew.