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HN users compulsively flag any articles with political relevance. Unfortunately.

Harder to justify when so many of them are directly related to tech and the SV startup scene.

This post has more top-level comments criticizing the decision, so I guess it stays.

Yep... and this post is already downvoted to the 2nd page. Despite gathering over 70 comments during the last hour...

Comments from the previous thread moved here. Since I can't delete the above, consider it retracted, and thanks sctb.

Yes, there's a minimum karma necessary to flag submissions. I don't recall the threshold off the top of my head.

I think a lot of members are feeling some degree of politics exhaustion. There's still plenty of discussion going on.

I see a flag button. I think it's points? I have 1325