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What gets flagged on HN and why?
Is anybody keeping stats on what kind of posts HN mods flag? Just noticed this was flagged after a for some reason https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966351
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoFlagging is primarily done by users. Once a sufficient number of flag votes are accumulated, the article becomes marked as flagged.
- onyva 6y agoOh I see. Thanks. Considering it got up voted by 40 users it seems, based on other posts flagged before, anything critical of the USA eventually gets flagged.
- totetsu 6y agoSometimes it is because the quality of discussion deteriorated