Looks like it got flagged off the front page [0]. HN will downweight posts when they receive enough flags even before applying the [flagged] label. I pretty mu

Looks like it got flagged off the front page [0]. HN will downweight posts when they receive enough flags even before applying the [flagged] label. I pretty much expected this to happen. I posted it because I think it's interesting that even in 1944 the word was basically just used as "a swearword" (to quote Orwell), but since it touches on politics it's unsurprising that a critical mass of people didn't want to see it on the front page. [0] https://hnrankings.info/40476278/ https://hnrankings.info/40476278/