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One of those is flagged, the other two are not. (At least as of right now.) You cannot downvote posts, so that isn't a concern. So sure, there may be some peop
by codingdave 2y ago
One of those is flagged, the other two are not. (At least as of right now.) You cannot downvote posts, so that isn't a concern.
So sure, there may be some people flagging things... but if the post is not deserving of such treatment, other people typically vouch for it. And it is always possible that HN is doing something more behind the scenes, but odds are it is just the community doing their own self-moderation, with all the pros and cons that come with self-moderation.
- candiddevmike 2y agoAIUI vouching is harder to do/fewer people can do it vs flagging, which IMO enables some at times questionable censorship. There should be a 1:1 vouch/flag capability or do away with it entirely and just use score like slashdot.
- noirscape 2y agoOne of the remaining two posts also likely triggered the heated discussion detected, since the one known criteria is if a post has more comments than upvotes, it gets algorithmically pushed down.