Scratch HN moderators, here it is straight from the horse's mouth: > "So already for the past week TSA stories have had an automatic penalty applied. Or more p

Scratch HN moderators, here it is straight from the horse's mouth: > "So already for the past week TSA stories have had an automatic penalty applied. Or more precisly, they've been autotagged as being political, which entails a penalty." > "When anything gets over a certain number of flags, it shows up on a list that admins see. They decide either to kill it, mark it as political or whatever, or do nothing." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934950 So, at least as of 3 years ago, HN both "autotags" and has admin driving tagging. Penalties are given to posts that have received particular tags. Strictly speaking, "words in titles" may or may not be involved in that "autotagging", but given PG's history with content classification... I suspect it is.