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Typically, these posts get flagged by users because they realize that they violate HN's guidelines [0]. It's interesting, just off-topic. Not sure what the thre
by october_sky 7y ago
Typically, these posts get flagged by users because they realize that they violate HN's guidelines [0]. It's interesting, just off-topic. Not sure what the threshold is for getting flagged vs upvotes, but I suspect it takes far fewer flags that votes.
> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html