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spacedcowboy 78 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss

Well, if John is correct, it's not too surprising that it is flagged...

I've noticed that being critical of Musk or Trump is a flag-magnet as well.. I guess either the owners of the site are cough "free-speech absolutists" or there's some concerted effort to prevent criticism of them - the former seems a lot more likely.

theshrike79 78 days ago [–]

I'm pretty sure it's just individual people with enough karma doing a knee-jerk flagging on articles they don't like.

Would be nice if someone with access to the backend checked the flagging stats to see if there's a ring of people doing it.

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