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Why has this been flagged? People being detained for writing op-eds is definitely not just politics or irrelevant.
by leftcenterright 2y ago
Why has this been flagged? People being detained for writing op-eds is definitely not just politics or irrelevant.
- pas 2y agoit is politics of the highest order (in the original sense affairs of the city(zenry)) that said asking why this has been flagged is probably futile, people flag things they don't want to see, don't want to interact with it, so it's unlikely to get a representative cross-section of them to explain "why?"
- dkjaudyeqooe 2y agoBecause HN has become much like X, with an aggressive pro Trump element abusing the system. People claim it's because its due to "irrelevant politics" but HN is probably 70% off topic subjects, tangentially connected to tech, etc. But no one is flagging these other off topic posts. I can also see it in any comment I make which doesn't conform to right wing dogma getting voted up in the EU time zone, then getting voted down in the US timezone.
- itsdrewmiller 2y ago>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This was covered extensively in mainstream media.