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Someone is flagging political posts
Today alone I’ve seen articles shared from The Guardian and The Washington Post flagged and removed. What did they have in common? Reporting on war crimes by Israel and the US. I’ve seen the downvote and flagging campaign increase here by the week. Will HN please do something about this manipulation?
- OrangePilled 7mo agoPolitical posts appear to fare better at the beginning of the week. Give people a break.
- allears 7mo agoI'm not an admin so I don't really know, but generally this board is by and for techies. There's lots of places to discuss politics, but this board ain't it. My guess is that's why the posts disappeared.
- treetalker 7mo agoOne such post today reported on the USA's apparent use of an aerial land-mine distribution system in Iran. That sounds like tech reporting that fits here — even more than the post a day or two ago about origami patterns for paper models of space vehicles, including the Winnebago from Space Balls, which post was not only flag-free but rather popular.
- xvxvx 7mo agoLiterally the story I was reading when it got flagged and removed, about the US dropping mines on Iran.
- allears 7mo agoHere's a venue that's friendlier to politics: https://www.fark.com/politics/ https://www.fark.com/politics/
- mhb 7mo agoAnd why do you think this is the right venue to receive that news?
- econ 7mo ago[flagged]
- mhb 7mo agoWhich aspect of the technology of mine dropping that you are most curious about do you suppose is covered by the removed article?
- econ 7mo agoThe kind we don't want to see in the world. I won't argue it is close enough to make the cut but it is more technical than some topics that do make the cut. Mines seem more of a long game effort. If we see more of that the war will keep raging and quality of life will decline globally.
- hiverrbeyy 7mo ago[dead]
- mindcrime 7mo agoIt wasn't me, but had I seen any of that stuff, I certainly would have flagged it as well. There are other places to have those conversations. Keep this crap off of HN.
- markus_zhang 7mo agoMany HN users dislike political posts, especially those have nothing to do with technology. I occasionally do the same, too.
- codingdave 7mo ago> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html That does not mean the stories are not important. They are. Vitally important. HN is just not the place for those discussions. This is not being dismissive of the stories, it should be seen as instead encouraging everyone to find a better site to engage even deeper with things that matter. At the end of the day, HN matters to your job, but stories like the ones getting flagged matter to the lives of millions. Show some respect for how important they are by not striving to mix them in here.
- mhb 7mo ago[flagged]
- mhb 7mo ago[flagged]
- NedF 7mo ago[dead]
- akagusu 7mo ago[flagged]