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Why is this story flagged?
by yumraj 7y ago
Why is this story flagged?
- krapp 7y ago"good hackers" aren't supposed to care about things like politics, so it gets flagged as irrelevant.
- yumraj 7y agoHN supposedly cares. They should unflag it.
- krapp 7y agoHN is very divided on the merit of political threads in general - and especially divided on discussions of China, which tend to breed a lot of paranoia and nationalist flamewar. Also, mainstream politics is explicitly against the guidelines unless a story presents some "interesting new phenomenon," the assumption being that the mainstream offers nothing of intellectual merit worth discussing, by default. So ignore Hong Kong. Let's talk about Clojure for the millionth time. It's a Lisp, good hackers like Lisps.
- robotron 7y agoI have a feeling it's more political than that, as in it's being flagged by pro-mainland members of HN.
- salawat 7y agoIt's called active perception management and forum sliding. I'll just leave this here. https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
- kazinator 7y agoIt's off-topic and well-circulated in other sites. For instance, it's the top story under the "popular" tag on Reddit, currently. And on that site, the submission isn't in some hacker-related forum; it's correctly in r/worldnews.