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Wait - are you proposing to study flagging or “censorship” on HN? Flagging certainly exists. What is your evidence in favor of censorship existing here? If m

Wait - are you proposing to study flagging or “censorship” on HN? Flagging certainly exists. What is your evidence in favor of censorship existing here? If memory serves, there are website(s) that track which submission get flagged. If you’re concerned about a favored view or topic being flagged frequently, you could start there. Otherwise you risk exerting lots of effort to simply find out that a favored view or topic isn’t shared by lots of people here. And, well, not all of them are equally important, or equally important to the HN audience.

walterbell 5y ago
The study would be on flagging, which is typically done by independent HN users. HN has non-public mechanisms to detect some coordinated activity (e.g. upvoting submissions) across registered usernames. > If there were organized efforts to censor specific topics Note the "if" at the beginning of the sentence. It's not about transient topics, but long-term patterns. Broadly speaking, "censorship" is only one possible motive for coordinated activity, flagging or otherwise. > If memory serves, there are website(s) that track which submission get flagged. Thanks for the pointer, found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29144989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29144989 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29113079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29113079 & https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn.