According to the hacker news guidelines, I'm not sure that's a valid reason. Hacker news specifically blocks news about politics: > What not to submit: Most st

According to the hacker news guidelines, I'm not sure that's a valid reason. Hacker news specifically blocks news about politics: > What not to submit: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html So an article about the actual state of the war is inappropriate for hacker news and would likely get removed. This article is about journalistic standards in news reporting and citation management, using one recent article as a case study. It doesn't directly debate that number; it debates journalistic practices in news reporting. I can understand why the focus on a seemingly small detail like this can be frustrating when there's so much more going on though. And I think you believe that this might influence people on the larger conflict. But I don't think that's cause for flagging according to the guidelines. And personally I think this article is more likely to have an impact on pushing for better journalistic standards (as evidenced by the majority of comments), which should be a win for everyone, but unfortunately that message is now suppressed since folks have flagged it. Regardless, thank you for taking the time to respond; I imagine there's fear of folks dog piling on a person when they flag a post, so I appreciate you responding despite that!