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Why is this flagged? Too political? Not technical? Off topic? Of course we can flag things, but I am not fan doing so silently.

karmakurtisaani 1y ago
It goes against the pro-Israel narrative. Such things get flagged without explanation, even when they are just news.
- hn_throwaway_99 1y ago
  That is such ridiculous nonsense, but par for the "every time something happens that I disagree with, it must be because of bias/cabal/conspiracy on the other side" course that you see everywhere in online discourse these days. "pro-Israel narrative"??? On HN? You must be reading a different site. While I didn't flag this, it's really not hard to see how (a) there is nothing about it that is relevant to tech, hacking or entrepreneurship, but more importantly (b) it's the topic that predictably leads to a dumpster fire of comments.
  - lores 1y ago
    While HN comments don't tend to be blindly pro-Israel, it is a fact that posts about Gaza _always_ get flagged, while other posts of general interest about vinyl records, Sudan or CIA training don't. With the known sophistication of Israel's tech and PR sectors, it's less of a cabal and more of an inevitability.
    - hn_throwaway_99 1y ago
      > While HN comments don't tend to be blindly pro-Israel, it is a fact that posts about Gaza _always_ get flagged That's simply false. This article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44731958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44731958, from 6 days ago has 734 votes and 924 comments when I pulled it. Searches for "gaza" and "israel" bring up a lot of other recent stories, some with over a thousand votes. A lot of HNers (myself included) will flag stuff if it's highly likely to devolve into a flamewar with no substantive discussion, especially if it's related to a news story that's highly likely to be covered in loads of other places online. Unfortunately, articles about vinyl records or Sudan tend to elicit more informative discussion than many articles about Gaza.
  - linuxhansl 1y ago
    Perhaps it is. I was merely asking. Reading the article I find nothing to object in there as such, and so I was wondering why this would be flagged. "Oh heck someone flagged it" is not quite good enough an answer for me.
aaron695 1y ago
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1oooqooq 1y ago
because the site admins chose too. I'm guessing since the UI doesn't show the typical vouch button for user flagged posts

karmakurtisaani 1y ago

It goes against the pro-Israel narrative. Such things get flagged without explanation, even when they are just news.

hn_throwaway_99 1y ago
That is such ridiculous nonsense, but par for the "every time something happens that I disagree with, it must be because of bias/cabal/conspiracy on the other side" course that you see everywhere in online discourse these days. "pro-Israel narrative"??? On HN? You must be reading a different site. While I didn't flag this, it's really not hard to see how (a) there is nothing about it that is relevant to tech, hacking or entrepreneurship, but more importantly (b) it's the topic that predictably leads to a dumpster fire of comments.
- lores 1y ago
  While HN comments don't tend to be blindly pro-Israel, it is a fact that posts about Gaza _always_ get flagged, while other posts of general interest about vinyl records, Sudan or CIA training don't. With the known sophistication of Israel's tech and PR sectors, it's less of a cabal and more of an inevitability.
  - hn_throwaway_99 1y ago
    > While HN comments don't tend to be blindly pro-Israel, it is a fact that posts about Gaza _always_ get flagged That's simply false. This article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44731958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44731958, from 6 days ago has 734 votes and 924 comments when I pulled it. Searches for "gaza" and "israel" bring up a lot of other recent stories, some with over a thousand votes. A lot of HNers (myself included) will flag stuff if it's highly likely to devolve into a flamewar with no substantive discussion, especially if it's related to a news story that's highly likely to be covered in loads of other places online. Unfortunately, articles about vinyl records or Sudan tend to elicit more informative discussion than many articles about Gaza.
- linuxhansl 1y ago
  Perhaps it is. I was merely asking. Reading the article I find nothing to object in there as such, and so I was wondering why this would be flagged. "Oh heck someone flagged it" is not quite good enough an answer for me.

aaron695 1y ago

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1oooqooq 1y ago

because the site admins chose too. I'm guessing since the UI doesn't show the typical vouch button for user flagged posts