> HN is its community, and the community is speaking loud and clear about its allegiance. This seems to be over-simplifying. Flagging only requires some flat a

> HN is its community, and the community is speaking loud and clear about its allegiance. This seems to be over-simplifying. Flagging only requires some flat amount of flags for a post to be [flagged], meaning a small minority can shut down discussion on these topics even if some small subset of that minority is flagging a given post. The first tracks with all of the posts being flagged and the second tracks with moderator claims (which I personally believe) that there is not an obvious brigade of users doing the flagging. Regardless of all of the posts being flagged, there seem to be many still who find them and think they should not have been flagged. That suggests to me that there is a sizeable portion of the community with either a more friendly allegiance or none at all.