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[flagged] is a visible indicator, so you can just do that analysis yourself. Either use the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/
by yorwba 6y ago
[flagged] is a visible indicator, so you can just do that analysis yourself. Either use the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API or, if that doesn't include the flag status, scrape it from the website. Then classify whatever number of flagged stories you end up collecting based on their topic.
- panny 6y agoThat's not really true, since there appears to be a threshold that must be passed to reach [flagged] on a post. In the meantime, the submission is pushed down the rankings anyway. The result is a post that never is [flagged] but was flagged enough to keep it from being discussed. Furthermore, posters (like me) who do make China submissions are demoted over time such that we can only make one comment or post every hour or more. The effect is you might post one article, but you won't be allowed to discuss your submission. Dang will say you are conducting nationalistic flame wars simply for submitting the articles. Eventually, you're shadowbanned, where you can post, but all of your comments are immediately [dead]. Only people who show dead can read them and no one can discuss it. At some point, you become banned such that all your submissions are treated this way too. Basically, if you're here, you're being indoctrinated. If you won't accept the indoctrination, you are silenced.
- quotz 6y agoI am not really a coder so if anybody else wants to take up on this a lot of HNers would be grateful