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Is it possible to ban all users that flagged this post? Or at the very least permanently disable their downvoting and flagging power?

• iso1631 5y ago
  There was another submission about tank man, just a CNN article on it. That submission has been marked as a dupe, despite the link not appearing in a recent search. I think users can flag, but not mark as dupe
• dvfjsdhgfv 5y ago
  I'd like to hear their explanation first. There might be people who honestly believe that no political content should on HN.
  • Brian_K_White 5y ago
    To allow that rationale, you'd want to look over the commenting & voting history of anyone claiming that. I bet they all turn out to have funny definitions of what counts and what doesn't.
• happytoexplain 5y ago
  That's very disproportionate (but I think it's ridiculous that this is flagged).
• jodrellblank 5y ago
  I didn't flag it, but it's a boring link to an empty search result with no discussion except outrage. I know political topics can be on-topic here, but why is this worthy of a HN submission and not being flagged? What's particularly interesting about it? (And before you respond with the obvious - Microsoft has clearly blocked this, and it's in China's interest for them to do so, yes, but can you explain why you think that is that particularly Hacker Newsworthy? Like, the only thing you've posted is 5x comments of single line outrage - you've called for people to be banned, DDG to be removed from a list, called it suspicious, cast aspersions on HN employees - you don't seem to be trying to start a detailed discussion about anything related - and neither does almost everyone else.)