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Another controversial post marked as "dead". HN must take a look about this systematic effort to erase out this kind of post from here.

asacrowflies 1y ago
It's kinda insane how political this place is under the false guise of "neutrality". A real right wing echo chamber
- HeavyStorm 1y ago
  Wouldn't go _that_ far, but surely there are people working to get rid of this kind of post, which is certainly a problem. And it should be easy to find out what accounts are abusing the "dead" flag and punish those.
  - docdeek 1y ago
    HN guidelines state that if it is a story that will be found easily on a mainstream news site, it is probably not a good submission for HN. I flag political posts fairly regularly because there are plenty of other places to have those conversations besides HN.
  - itsdrewmiller 1y ago
    Why do you think it is a problem that some HN users flag posts they don’t think belong on HN?
- kulahan 1y ago
  HN is literally the only actually-balanced community I've seen on the internet.
  - asacrowflies 1y ago
    "balanced" as in the the constant ratchet effect of moving the reasonable overtone window more and more to the right under the false guise of "neutrality and civility" This forum has a high proportion of unscientific nonsense that would have been viciously mocked by "hackers" at this forums founding. (Climate change and covid denial. Basic security fails from big corpos. Plaintext passwords etc) This place is "balanced" the same way 4chan is . One of the last places these people feel secure in their insanity .
    - kulahan 1y ago
      Nope, balanced as in people are allowed to have a balanced viewpoint of things. And don't worry - even back in the founding days, there were still flat earthers and climate deniers and vaccine skeptics. These people are still downvoted to hell here. I don't know if it ever came back up, but you should go spend a little time on /b/ - you seem to have forgotten how bad that site is.
nebula8804 1y ago
We need some mechanism to display all the flagged posts, maybe a flag to show flagged posts? Of if HN is unable to update the codebase, maybe a scraper to show the flagged posts in an easy to use format. Right now I am stuck having to google for political topics (using site: filter) and looking for the posts that are buried.

asacrowflies 1y ago

It's kinda insane how political this place is under the false guise of "neutrality". A real right wing echo chamber

HeavyStorm 1y ago
Wouldn't go _that_ far, but surely there are people working to get rid of this kind of post, which is certainly a problem. And it should be easy to find out what accounts are abusing the "dead" flag and punish those.
- docdeek 1y ago
  HN guidelines state that if it is a story that will be found easily on a mainstream news site, it is probably not a good submission for HN. I flag political posts fairly regularly because there are plenty of other places to have those conversations besides HN.
- itsdrewmiller 1y ago
  Why do you think it is a problem that some HN users flag posts they don’t think belong on HN?
kulahan 1y ago
HN is literally the only actually-balanced community I've seen on the internet.
- asacrowflies 1y ago
  "balanced" as in the the constant ratchet effect of moving the reasonable overtone window more and more to the right under the false guise of "neutrality and civility" This forum has a high proportion of unscientific nonsense that would have been viciously mocked by "hackers" at this forums founding. (Climate change and covid denial. Basic security fails from big corpos. Plaintext passwords etc) This place is "balanced" the same way 4chan is . One of the last places these people feel secure in their insanity .
  - kulahan 1y ago
    Nope, balanced as in people are allowed to have a balanced viewpoint of things. And don't worry - even back in the founding days, there were still flat earthers and climate deniers and vaccine skeptics. These people are still downvoted to hell here. I don't know if it ever came back up, but you should go spend a little time on /b/ - you seem to have forgotten how bad that site is.

nebula8804 1y ago

We need some mechanism to display all the flagged posts, maybe a flag to show flagged posts? Of if HN is unable to update the codebase, maybe a scraper to show the flagged posts in an easy to use format. Right now I am stuck having to google for political topics (using site: filter) and looking for the posts that are buried.