Comment by jacquesm
8 days ago
It only gets flagged when it reaches the homepage. Elon has godlike status amongst some HN'ers so it is kind of predictable that whatever criticizes Elon will get flagged.
8 days ago
It only gets flagged when it reaches the homepage. Elon has godlike status amongst some HN'ers so it is kind of predictable that whatever criticizes Elon will get flagged.
Flagging downranks the entry so it disappears quickly off the homepage. As indeed happened in this case.
There have also been 94 Musk stories submitted over the last week so sometimes it's a bit excessive.
I feel like there's been a shift. Elon used to have god like status, but as he spent that social capital on objectionable behavior, it seems the shift has been towards a general dismissal and disdain for people who dislike Elon, which gets conflated into a similar thought terminating argument like "Trump derangement syndrome"