{"id":43543398,"user":"jameslk","time":1743488123,"time_ago":"9 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

I just flagged it since it's politics. Don't need to get much further than seeing the comments here to understand why posts like these don't belong on HN.","comments":[{"id":43544552,"user":"AlecSchueler","time":1743499008,"time_ago":"8 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Use your hide function, this is important.","comments":[{"id":43548154,"user":"jameslk","time":1743522202,"time_ago":"8 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Hide doesn't flag content that should be flagged","comments":[{"id":43548585,"user":"goatlover","time":1743524361,"time_ago":"8 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

So you want to hide it for everyone.","comments":[{"id":43549078,"user":"jameslk","time":1743526885,"time_ago":"8 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Flagging is for flagging content that doesn't meet HN's guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag

Specifically:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.","comments":[{"id":43549157,"user":"AlecSchueler","time":1743527272,"time_ago":"8 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Like the death of American democracy, the death throes of the global status quo? The normalisation of facism?

I've been here for a decade and a half and I've never once felt the need to discuss politics here before. This situation is very different and is sure to have a direct effect on anything else we may want to discuss in the future. There's also often a technological aspect where I am dying to hear expert opinion and this is where the experts are.

Again, this situation is very new and it requires a response. Hundreds of people are upvoting these articles every day and every day they're being told to go elsewhere. It's a very disconcerting feeling and I don't understand why "hide" isn't enough.","comments":[{"id":43549286,"user":"jameslk","time":1743527952,"time_ago":"8 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Dang and other moderators can decide whether this submission qualifies as an "interesting new phenomenon" and turn off the flags like they sometimes do. Given how frequently these political posts have been showing up on HN over the past few months, I'd wager this one is not an "interesting new phenomenon" to them.","comments":[{"id":43554154,"time":1743575329,"time_ago":"8 months ago","type":"comment","content":"[deleted]","deleted":true,"comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":6,"url":"item?id=43554154"}],"comments_count":1,"level":5,"url":"item?id=43549286"}],"comments_count":2,"level":4,"url":"item?id=43549157"}],"comments_count":3,"level":3,"url":"item?id=43549078"}],"comments_count":4,"level":2,"url":"item?id=43548585"}],"comments_count":5,"level":1,"url":"item?id=43548154"}],"comments_count":6,"level":0,"url":"item?id=43544552"}],"comments_count":7,"url":"item?id=43543398"}

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