I turned off flags on that story when I saw it, long before I saw this post just now. You should have done as the site guidelines ask (https://news.ycombinator.

I turned off flags on that story when I saw it, long before I saw this post just now. You should have done as the site guidelines ask (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and emailed hn@ycombinator.com about this rather than starting an off-topic meta thread. If you had, we could have fixed the problem sooner. If you want a more general answer about how we moderate this topic, try https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46227485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46227485 (from a few minutes ago). For older explanations, here's a sample: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403947 (June 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39920732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39920732 (April 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618973 (March 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435324 (Feb 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435024 (Feb 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237176 (Feb 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947003 (Jan 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38749162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38749162 (Dec 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657527 (Dec 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27252765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27252765 (May 2021) p.s. Your submission history https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=cramsession https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=cramsession is obviously against the site guidelines because you've been using HN primarily for political battle. Normally we'd ban such an account or take submission privileges away from it. We haven't done that in your case and I'm not going to do it right now (it feels unsporting to bust people in an extraneous context, even if they've been breaking the rules badly). But you should understand that using HN only to prosecute a political cause, even a just one, is a violation of this site.