Well, let's not jump to conclusions. I agree with you that the submissions kill policy at HN leaves a lot to be desired (there was a post about this at HN today

Well, let's not jump to conclusions. I agree with you that the submissions kill policy at HN leaves a lot to be desired (there was a post about this at HN today). However, you don't know if it's killed by flagging (community vote) or moderator action (just a few people, I think 30). Even if it was flagged, AFAIK it doesn't take a lot of votes to kill it. So the "large number of people" point is not valid. P.S. The post I mentioned (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1540904 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1540904) is unfortunately killed, too. You have to turn showdead on to see it.