They get flagged because they have nothing to do with the forum’s subject. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unles

They get flagged because they have nothing to do with the forum’s subject. > 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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html