It is also very interesting to a large number of the audience.
Yet sadly there seems to be a number of people here who think they have a right to overrule everyone who upvote (and no, I'm not talking about the mods but about the flaggers.)
I believe we could have closed this faster and with less problems if we allowed the debate to happen and only flagged comments -on both sides- that broke hn guidelines.
Instead we now have 50 threads and where people are getting increasingly frustrated.
I do think people flagged post because they didn't aline with their opinions, but they are in their right. If this is a community site and people decide to flag something, you should accept it (or leave the community if you don't like it). I also consider those flags under the community guidelines because we already have a couple of post about the topic.
The debate is happening anyway. Don't get frustrated. I am learning a lot.
Here's where I accept the current rules but suggest looking into whether flags are given too much weight compared to upvotes.
perhaps some of the mods could chime in as to whom was doing the bulk of the flags.
Reasoning: its a political hot-potato, with their DoL lawsuit accused of paying women substantially less for the same job. Last thing they needed was more 300+ HN posts every day for a week. Rage-media has mostly moved on to N Korea, or whatever other special cringe-worthy topic.