I can flag articles, but not comments. I'm not sure if this is just me of course, but given comments appeared marked as [flagged] it seems so. Inflation in kerm

I can flag articles, but not comments. I'm not sure if this is just me of course, but given comments appeared marked as [flagged] it seems so. Inflation in kerma required for flagging? The rules are rather opaque. I'm fine with bias, it is as you point out, expected and unavoidable. It is more obvious who likes/dislikes what on twitter, though they keep making that harder to determine analytically. I guess the problem boils down to there being no sense of who is voting one way or the other, and would you respect those people? Like, I'm not going to care if Jacob Wohl downvotes something, or if a bunch of Wohlites (or Chomskyists for that matter) are angry, but how can you tell? As to articles specifically related to gender and women, I would say HN has a problem. It is up to HN owners to decide whether to damp down the jerk responses, the flagging, etc. I prefer HN posts because they don't have to be absurdley short, and there are no memes. How I hate memes. Though the lack of respect for humour and wit really diminishes discourse.