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- Some people will flag any political content they see, believing all political content to be off-topic. - Some people support the current regime and will flag
by krapp 1y ago
- Some people will flag any political content they see, believing all political content to be off-topic.
- Some people support the current regime and will flag any content they consider anti-establishment.
- Hacker News is designed so that it takes very few flags to stick, so as to aggressively filter signal from noise, for as greedy a definition of "noise" as possible.
There's no conspiracy here, it's just Hacker News being Hacker News. If you want to be able to discuss these things freely, find another platform. Otherwise just accept that any "political" content will very likely be flagged at some point.
- cluckindan 1y agoEverything on this site is political. YC is very much a political entity, they are simply censoring what to an outsider would be YC’s political opposition.
- krapp 1y agoIn some cases, certainly, although I suspect most people simply don't care and just want to engage with "technical" content. It doesn't matter what arguments you make or who you make them too, they aren't going to stop flagging.
- donkeybeer 1y agoNo but there are clearly patterns in what "off topic" stuff gets flagged. Many people work in analytics here. It'd be nice if some number crunching was done.
- LexiMax 1y ago> If you want to be able to discuss these things freely, find another platform. I believe it is productive to continue discussing these topics here. Hacker News has a reputation as a place where you can have reasonable discussions with smart people in good faith. It is a facade, but tearing down this facade is done by making the attempts at censorship more visible and blatant.