Comment by blargey
4 days ago
At least the third time this year, but every post on HN related to grok's prompt gets flagged soon after, with a rigor not shared by any other political or "celebrity" topic.
4 days ago
At least the third time this year, but every post on HN related to grok's prompt gets flagged soon after, with a rigor not shared by any other political or "celebrity" topic.
I am always reminded of HN's interesting flagging habits when I think back to how well upvoted and certainly not flagged the Pope's death and appointment news articles were.
A US presidential candidate got shot and people flagged that. How would one even assess this 'rigor' without considering the things that never made it to begin with.
There was also at least one giant thread about the Grok South Africa thing.
How do you tell how much a topic is being flagged? Don't flagged posts disappear?
If you sort by /new or /active you can see flagged posts.
It's the same with anything negative related to Musk, DOGE, etc. Examples below.
And you can't just blame people flagging the stories - people ask for them to be whitelisted and are gaslit in response. No surprise, maybe, when Garry Tan and PG are writing fluffy tweets about Musk and the DOGE team.
Examples:
"Musk’s DOGE Goons Surreptitiously Transmitted Reams of White House Data" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058574.)
Yet prolific commenters here will still praise HN for having such little censorship - it's pretty disturbing.
Yes; this shouldn't have been flagged.
1. Major tech company 2. Major failure of a tech product 3. A public relations disaster for AI
Of course this is a legitimate topic for discussion. Flagging it is bullshit.
All topics that negatively talk about Trump or Elon get flagged. I'll let you come to a conclusion as to why.
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