This is a question, how can it be factual? And how many of the stories that make HN front page are actually "factual"? The fact that you disabled flagging for

This is a question, how can it be factual? And how many of the stories that make HN front page are actually "factual"? The fact that you disabled flagging for some stories shows that you do care about the perception of censorship and acted upon it. Automatically demoting stories based on flags is just a bad form of moderation. Moderation should be done by moderators who are clearly identifiable. But I guess we can't discuss this as this post got flagged...