Comment by lovich

I dont assume positive bias, but I do assume that most negative things that get people irked are removed as a result of the mechanics of the flagging system.

Like, I dont really expect puff pieces for ycombinator or the like to get artificially pushed to the top, but I do expect that enough people who are feel culturally or financially invested in ycombinator to flag negative things into oblivion, especially as its completely reasonable that the population of users here has a much higher percentage of those folk than any random population sampling.