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Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024 (543 points, 57 comments) https://news.ycombin

• randomtoast 10mo ago
  And as all of these earlier discussions it will get flagged to death by trump supporters or trump supporter bots.
  • jadamson 10mo ago
    The first one is still on the front page.
    • takoid 10mo ago
      It was flagged off the front page yesterday. I'm not sure for how long, but you can read discussion about this in the thread itself.
      • jadamson 10mo ago
        Fair point. There is actually a site that tracks this, and that post was off the front page for most of its existence: https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=46361024 https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=46361024
  • websiteapi 10mo ago
    why do you think it's because of trump supporters, I'm curious if you have evidence of trump affiliated suppression on HN (notwithstanding the actual segment which could certainly be said to be trump suppressed) - maybe people just don't want politics on here. in any case there's one: Cecot – 60 Minutes (archive.org), on the front page anyway.
    • mothballed 10mo ago
      [flagged]
    • ryandrake 10mo ago
      Obviously, nobody but the HN admins/mods know about flagging or voting patterns, and they don't talk about the details when these kinds of events happen. The most you'll hear is "We looked at it and manually removed the flags." So, it is impossible to provide the evidence you are asking for. You see this here with other topics, too, not just things some people dismiss as "political". Submit any article that criticizes a certain multi-company tech CEO and it will be instantly flagged off the main page.
      • websiteapi 10mo ago
        so you don't know but you keep saying it's because of pro trumpers...? why spread misinformation. you could just say that it keeps getting flagged without lying.
        • etyhhgfff 10mo ago
          We cant know for sure, because unlike dang we cannot correlate the flags. However, there is something called circumstantial evidence, which can even hold up in court. You went from curious to accusation of misinformation and lying in just two comments. Thats concerning.
          • belorn 10mo ago
            Since we are talking about circumstantial evidence, lets bring alternative theories to the table so that we know we are not excluding other explanations for the same data. People who are afraid that they will get attacked if their views do not conform to the majority are more likely to flag an article and move on rather than engage with the discussion. Articles do not require 50% of the participants to flag it in order for it to get flagged, thus this minority will cause articles to get flagged. The more hostile the community get to dissenting opinions, the more articles get flagged, with the most heated topics getting the majority of flagging.
  • fortran77 10mo ago
    [flagged]
    • an0malous 10mo ago
      Which ones are the best replacements for HN? Looking for recs
      • mothballed 10mo ago
        [flagged]
  • Neil44 10mo ago
    It's not immediately clear to me why a news piece on a Salvadoran prison is relevant on HN, I guess that's why the flagging.
    • estearum 10mo ago
      This forum discusses information freedom pretty much all day every day. Now we have a real world example of suppression of information in the US which is rather rare and people (see comments) using technology to evade it.
      • Alive-in-2025 10mo ago
        I wish when stories get flagged it would list who flagged them
  • on_the_train 10mo ago
    [flagged]
    • Alive-in-2025 10mo ago
      What does "the discord people" mean?
      • on_the_train 10mo ago
        The people orchestrating these operations in the program discord.
        • Alive-in-2025 9mo ago
          is there a hacker news official discord or is there a private discord? How do you know about it and why does it matter
  • tim333 10mo ago
    I doubt it's Trump supporters. One flagger who said why was he just flags anything that is politics and not 'hacking'. The official guide is >Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. The longest discussion of a dozen or so was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024 (1543 points 530 comments)