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How come a link to REUTERS article, with the exact headline is flagged?

baybal2 6y ago
There is only one way to flag an article here. For a lot of people to click flag. And given this happening 7:00 San Jose time, I doubt any of mods would be logging into their mod account first thing in the morning to manually flag it. Still telling. Tech industry has a lot of communists.
- leereeves 6y ago
  But why is it still flagged 4 hours later? The HN mods can and do turn off user flags on important stories. Edit: why is this being downvoted? You've never seen dang turn off flags? He admits it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510075 So that raises the question: why not turn off flags on this story?
  - transtrain 6y ago
    There are too many pink haired alphabet people. Everything they dont like is hate speech, triggering etc.
  - Black101 6y ago
    This is 100% true... and they often do the opposite too... Sometime if feels like they are censoring more then Twitter.
  - dang 6y ago
    Because these threads are dominated by cartoonish, angry yelling which contains zero intellectual curiosity and therefore is thoroughly off topic. The commenters inundating the threads on these topics are plainly posting out of nationalistic and ideological zeal. That's not what HN is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630172
- me_me_me 6y ago
  What if I told you you could be a communist and condemn the atrocities done in the name of communist government. Though calling Chinese government a communist is same as calling North Korea a democratic republic.
- tim333 6y ago
  Or a few people with multiple accounts.
  - dogma1138 6y ago
    You need a bit of karma to flag, even more for your flag to count against high karma upvotes.
- Black101 6y ago
  I think some accounts have higher flagging powers... like mini-mods
- dang 6y ago
  This breaks the site guidelines egregiously. It's also a cartoonish fantasy of the sort that makes me cringe for this community. Please do not post any more of this dross. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630159

There is only one way to flag an article here. For a lot of people to click flag. And given this happening 7:00 San Jose time, I doubt any of mods would be logging into their mod account first thing in the morning to manually flag it. Still telling. Tech industry has a lot of communists.

leereeves 6y ago
But why is it still flagged 4 hours later? The HN mods can and do turn off user flags on important stories. Edit: why is this being downvoted? You've never seen dang turn off flags? He admits it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510075 So that raises the question: why not turn off flags on this story?
- transtrain 6y ago
  There are too many pink haired alphabet people. Everything they dont like is hate speech, triggering etc.
- Black101 6y ago
  This is 100% true... and they often do the opposite too... Sometime if feels like they are censoring more then Twitter.
- dang 6y ago
  Because these threads are dominated by cartoonish, angry yelling which contains zero intellectual curiosity and therefore is thoroughly off topic. The commenters inundating the threads on these topics are plainly posting out of nationalistic and ideological zeal. That's not what HN is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630172
me_me_me 6y ago
What if I told you you could be a communist and condemn the atrocities done in the name of communist government. Though calling Chinese government a communist is same as calling North Korea a democratic republic.
tim333 6y ago
Or a few people with multiple accounts.
- dogma1138 6y ago
  You need a bit of karma to flag, even more for your flag to count against high karma upvotes.
Black101 6y ago
I think some accounts have higher flagging powers... like mini-mods
dang 6y ago
This breaks the site guidelines egregiously. It's also a cartoonish fantasy of the sort that makes me cringe for this community. Please do not post any more of this dross. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang 6y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630159