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These aren't getting flagged by 'YC', just like your local bowling league is not oppressing book clubs and Ren Faire by not organizing those things.

• lysace 2y ago
  YC built the flagging functionality and handles the exceptions. This is highly upvoted but "flagged" post number like 300 in this general area. So yeah, I feel like we all need somewhere else to meet.
  • pvg 2y ago
    You can send an email and ask for an exception to be made. 'YC built the flagging' feels like somewhat non-responsive sophistry to me - users are rejecting these stories because HN is is not a current affairs forum. I don't think you're meaningfully defending the claim 'YC doesn't want this discussed' at all. And you just made it.
    • deleted 2y ago
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    • lysace 2y ago
      We will remember the American general indifference to this idiotic and destructive trade war.
      • pvg 2y ago
        Ok but you said YC is suppressing this story on HN and I don't believe that is true and it looks like you don't believe it is true either.
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      There is a karma tier for downvoting comments. Perhaps that line should be drawn higher for flagging content. There is way too much being flagged as a downvote versus as a flag.
      • pvg 2y ago
        There is way too much being flagged as a downvote versus as a flag. What's the evidence for this? That users are flagging regular news stories?
        • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
          > What's the evidence for this? Compare the front page and lists/active [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active
          • pvg 2y ago
            I'm looking at it and I'm not seeing what you're seeing. What currently active story do you feel should be on the front page? Or stories since you're saying this is a common problem.
            • stubish 2y ago
              Apparently electric cars are no longer tech, since every post mentioning Tesla gets flagged. And Musk is no longer appropriate, despite remaining CEO of Tesla and owning SpaceX and Twitter. Did you know Tesla announced how many cars it delivered, giving actual numbers to the recent speculation? Not news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556463 (and probably others with fewer upvotes)
              • pvg 2y ago
                “It’s tech” is not in itself a golden ticket to HN ontopicness. Both of your links are effective dupes (by HN’s long established dupery rules) - they have had multiple recent discussions. Both are also repeat flamewar topics. This is about as basic, bog-standard and righteous user flagging as it gets.
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    • tayo42 2y ago
      > users are rejecting these stories I find this kind of confusing, why "flag" and not just click "hide" for your self? Why is there a subset of HN users that think they need to make sure I can't see articles they don't want either?
      • pvg 2y ago
        Because repetitive flamewars make the rest of HN flamey and worse, and enough of it can burn the whole place down - this is a thing that happens to forums and HN is explicitly built around the premise of fending that off for as long as possible. It's also intended as an "unsiloed" online community - there are no sub-hns, we all look at the same stuff and react to and discuss the things on the front page. There is a big subset (I think easily the majority) who care about the nature of HN - a nerd forum of mostly nerd-curiosity things and don't want it changed to something else. A site for discussing current news/political events would be something else.
        • chiengineer 2y ago
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