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Just curious why has this been flagged for removal?

• umeshunni 7y ago
  There are lots of wealthy Bay Area liberals on HN.
  • WalterGR 7y ago
    I’ve noticed that lots of accounts that post dismissive, low-content comments like yours have an “about“ section in their user profile that matches the exact format of about: [ my public key: https://keybase.io/<Hn https://keybase.io/<Hn profile name>; my proof: https://keybase.io/<Hn https://keybase.io/<Hn profile name>/sigs/n_-<text matching [a-zA-Z0-9]+> ] Complete with the opening and closing brackets. Why is that?
• nostrademons 7y ago
  Politics, presumably. From HN guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
  • elhudy 7y ago
    That's unfortunate. The article offered an interesting new perspective to me and I don't think it's one that would generally be found on tv or elsewhere.
    • mfatica 7y ago
      Because it's a bullshit article claiming all American cities are shit when really it's just San Francisco and the liberal elite that are fucking up their own cities. New York as well. The rest of us are doing just fine actually.
      • TulliusCicero 7y ago
        > all American cities are shit This is true. American urban design is hot garbage that fell off a truck, went threw a sewer, was dried out, set on fire, and then shot into the sun. But affordability wise, yeah it's mostly the super-successful liberal cities that are really feeling the pain. Though all the other cities still have serious problems with economic segregation by neighborhood, generally.
      • bliblah 7y ago
        This is a big issue when it comes to discussing this topic in HN. Almost all conversation regarding housing / urban design seems to be focus on San Francisco. The only other cities ever mentioned here often are New York, Seattle, or London. So if you live in a reasonable city that doesn't have housing problems, insane tax policies, or homelessness taking over the streets you won't really get much conversation.
  • Dirlewanger 7y ago
    >Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports This is like 30% of HN's front page at any given time. Let's be honest: this one got flagged because someone didn't like "wealthy liberals" in the title, despite being the actual article title.
• dqpb 7y ago
  It seems the social infrastructure of Silicon Valley is too meta for this crowd.