> Controversial topics almost cannot be discussed on HN because it only takes a few people to vanish the post for good. Yes but that's a choice, because these

> Controversial topics almost cannot be discussed on HN because it only takes a few people to vanish the post for good. Yes but that's a choice, because these topics tend to create flame war discussion, so they don't belong to HN. It doesn't mean, these topics should not be discussed. Hn is just not the right place for it. > This almost never happens. A flagged post is basically a death sentence for that post. I'm not sure for that. I've rescued post, and I've seen post being rescued. But it could be easier to rescue a post, I agree. Hn works as a filter for submitted content, which works pretty well but tend to filter always the same kind of posts