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So I guess the question is if this is organic and these are real users or if they are bots controlled by someone with an agenda. BTW you don't see [flagged] on

So I guess the question is if this is organic and these are real users or if they are bots controlled by someone with an agenda. BTW you don't see [flagged] on your own posts. They look normal but are simply absent if not logged in. Similar to hell-banning.

mtmail 11y ago
It's real users. I frequent the new submissions page a lot and I would've flagged all three submission (I wasn't online then). My reasoning is that Drumpf is not HN material. Same with Leonardo not winning an Oscar, Kane tweeting about his new studio album or the superbowl. Even with school shootings and terrorist attacks only very few articles make the frontpage. It's not disagreement with the campaign (I enjoyed the show on youtube) or political agenda, just trying to keep quality up. My guide is https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/best [edit: on slow work day (weekend) I probably look at 75% of submissions and flag 5 maximum. Flagging comments is very very rare. It needs several users to flag to become active, I don't know personally or collaborate with others users on flagging.]
detaro 11y ago
There are 9 Trump-related submissions in the last 24 hours alone that haven't been flagged. And at least for the flags I set (I flagged some drumpf-browser-extension at least once), I can tell you that I'm not a bot and don't have a particular agenda ;) I don't think there is any reason to believe those to be not organic.