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I'd say because it was flagged for having no actual content beyond an incendiary political viewpoint that most American-based HN readers find offensive because

I'd say because it was flagged for having no actual content beyond an incendiary political viewpoint that most American-based HN readers find offensive because it clashes with their fundamental belief systems.

pyre 16y ago
When did flagging comments become a feature? (Or has it just been in my blind spot?)
- JoachimSchipper 16y ago
  With enough karma, you'll see a "flag" link when looking at individual comments.
- jambo 16y ago
  You have to click on the comment's permalink to see the flag link. It doesn't show up on the main comments page.
mrtron 16y ago
What is the offensiveness in the post? I read it a few times trying to find it, but couldn't. Is is something related to the specific presidents listed? This has me thinking - what about starting a news agency online. A disruptive news agency where every reporter cannot be from the region they are reporting on. It will be 'unbiased high level news' where only the big issues are reported on from an unbiased standpoint. I think I could be a good reporter on American news because I keep relatively up to date but have no skin in the game.
- bugsy 16y ago
  That sounds like a really good idea.
bugsy 16y ago
I disagree both that his post is primarily political in nature and that it has no content. It makes good points that a rare and difficult to find senior engineer for a tech company would make less than a run of the mill junior manager with a mediocre degree from a no-name school. Perhaps this has something to do with the alleged difficulty in finding talent (which oddly has never affected my firm, only firms unwilling to pay market rate it seems or those located in strange places such as anywhere in flyover country.) The topic of the thread is executive pay at google so why should comments responding directly to that theme be censored?

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I'd say because it was flagged for having no actual content beyond an incendiary political viewpoint that most American-based HN readers find offensive because

by semanticist 16y ago

pyre 16y ago
When did flagging comments become a feature? (Or has it just been in my blind spot?)
- JoachimSchipper 16y ago
  With enough karma, you'll see a "flag" link when looking at individual comments.
- jambo 16y ago
  You have to click on the comment's permalink to see the flag link. It doesn't show up on the main comments page.
mrtron 16y ago
What is the offensiveness in the post? I read it a few times trying to find it, but couldn't. Is is something related to the specific presidents listed? This has me thinking - what about starting a news agency online. A disruptive news agency where every reporter cannot be from the region they are reporting on. It will be 'unbiased high level news' where only the big issues are reported on from an unbiased standpoint. I think I could be a good reporter on American news because I keep relatively up to date but have no skin in the game.
- bugsy 16y ago
  That sounds like a really good idea.
bugsy 16y ago
I disagree both that his post is primarily political in nature and that it has no content. It makes good points that a rare and difficult to find senior engineer for a tech company would make less than a run of the mill junior manager with a mediocre degree from a no-name school. Perhaps this has something to do with the alleged difficulty in finding talent (which oddly has never affected my firm, only firms unwilling to pay market rate it seems or those located in strange places such as anywhere in flyover country.) The topic of the thread is executive pay at google so why should comments responding directly to that theme be censored?