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Appreciate the feedback!

100%. It's a lot easier when you live next to a Google campus. And it sorts all the menial matters that make a huge difference, like access to washing machines.

About the flagging, you seem to have been here for a while, any hint? I get the word usage can comes across as disrespectful now that people mention it, but didn't think a link would get flagged for that.




I have been here for years. Most things that get flagged are extremely objectionable or touch a political nerve.

I could see conservatives disliking that it questions capitalism's viability post AI. I could see liberals thinking you are making light of folks experiencing homelessness.

I think those are absurd, but with a low vote count, your post may only need a few absurd people to flag you.

Naturally, there could be other reasons things get flagged, but I never see them because they disappear too fast.

You could always ask @dang to weigh in. He might see something which violates the guidelines.


Makes sense. Thanks for sharing!

Looks like it might have to do with the title, or at least the title was changed before it got unflagged. Good learning!


> Most things that get flagged are extremely objectionable

I unflag completely normal posts every day on the "New" page of HN. Many of them are actually very good posts, and some of them reach the number one spot of the front page after being unflagged.

Very rarely do I see the flagged posts being very objectionable.




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