Comment by RealityVoid
2 days ago
I think his edit? I read the edit as him pointing out that political posts get flagged on the front page. But it's obviously not flagged because of the rules, it's flagged because _someone_ is flagging this stuff. I say this because the first minutes of the post existence, it oscillated between flagged and un-flagged. Surely, we also triggered the comment activity trigger that auto-flags the post, some anti-flamewar measure.
Also, this phrase from him:
> This is an inconvenient perspective that some of the more well-funded and well-connected Hacker News readers would prefer to ignore.
> it's obviously not flagged because of the rules, it's flagged because _someone_ is flagging this stuff
Dang was commenting in this thread 8 hours ago - and the post is still flagged.
There's simply no good excuse for that to be the case. And this is far from the first time. Conclusions must be drawn.
It's kind of subtle, but I think you're right.