Apparently many HN users still don't understand how flagging is supposed to work. This is a first-person account from the subject of the controversy, so it shou

Apparently many HN users still don't understand how flagging is supposed to work. This is a first-person account from the subject of the controversy, so it shouldn't have been flagged. Flagging is for spam and off-topic posts. The echo chamber, attacks on heretics, and attempts to enforce groupthink are strong on HN, which should not surprise anyone given how woven it is into SV culture.