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Why is this flagged? How can we request unflagging? Is it all about censorship of harsh truths?

• sarreph 9y ago
  I second this. Feels like something fishy is going on, given all the author’s prior references of being flagged on other platforms.
• kilotaras 9y ago
  > How can we request unflagging? There's a "vouch" button once you have enough karma.
• grzm 9y ago
  Members may flag submissions due to the resulting discussion on HN as much as the submission itself: the sets of topics that are interesting and topics that can be constructively discusses on HN are not identical. Both are important to keep HN interesting. FWIW, it's not flagged at the time I'm writing this comment.
  • YouAreGreat 9y ago
    Quality of HN commentary is down and the flagging epidemic is part of it. The problem is sinking and killing discussions that already got going. A minority of selfish users gets to demolish collaborative work that other users already invested in. The incentives are for lower effort from commenters. A downward spiral.
• DoreenMichele 9y ago
  Flagging is something users do on HN, not mods. If you have enough karma, you can vouch for flagged items. You can also email the mods if you think it merits mod intervention. I have done so a few times to say stuff like "It is a good article with a bad title. I think users are flagging in reaction to the title without reading it." In such cases, they sometimes turn off flags and retitle the piece. Large group dynamics are inevitably messy and complicated. It doesn't really help to get up in arms about that fact.