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Hong Kong protesters occupy airport amid fears of escalating violence

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4 pointsLa-ang16 comments

Don't resubmit posts that you know are going to get flagged.

A post must be flagged for a valid reason. If not, I will keep posting articles related to the same topic until one explains why it is flagged. My analysis is that it's a crackdown on free speech on a sensitive subject. But this is HN, I respect content and all I do is report stories as displayed by Bloomberg, the NY Times etc . I am curious to know who flagged and for what reason.

Seems like a fairly obvious case for the "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." rule, too.

It's not tech or startup related. If the protesters hacked the airport it would be relevant.

Hacker News is for more than what is "tech or startup related". This is at the very beginning of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Untrue. I see articles from Nature on evolution, cells and embryos upvoted. How is that startup related? Please explain

The difference is that those articles you've mentioned are not pushing a political agenda. You are pushing a political agenda. Not only is this not HN's use-case, but there is nothing here to discuss that hasn't already been discussed to death. What kind of intellectually stimulating discussion do you think will arise from a submission like this?

If you really want mass exposure for your political crusade, there's Reddit for that. You'll receive 1000x the eyeballs, all the accolades, upvotes and Reddit Gold that you desire along with a nice echo-chamber of predictably inane comments.

You're only argumenting your own ideas here. What mass exposure are you talking about and eyeballs? I posted an update on a subject of the hour. Also, the main article I posted was derived from Bloomberg, and Bloomberg has no political agenda in Chinese affairs. Secondly, I have no political agenda in posting about the state of Hong Kong's affairs. You should be mindful of your words and claims that have no substantial grounds. My reposting was not a political push but a trigger to see why the flagging is not stopping. Dang has explained it already and I completely get his point, and agree to stop posting on it. You on the other hand, should refrain from emotionally arguing your points.

Regards,

Apologies if my assumptions were wrong. I should have said "the articles you are submitting are pushing a political agenda". Being emotional has nothing to do with it. When I see five identical articles pushing the same political agenda, submitted by the same user at the same time (and more within the past week), one can only assume that the user has a political agenda.

You could have easily just messaged the moderators to ask why your submissions were flagged instead of spamming the board and risking your account getting banned. As far as Bloomberg not having an agenda, please recall the as-of-yet unretracted and unproven Supermicro story.

I do not speak for Bloomberg, solely the article. And maybe you're right, but I'm more of a brute force attack individual, although I love Nmap..

> How is that startup related? Please explain

Because this isn't a startup forum. Yes, YC's core business relates to startups, but not everything they do has to. As the guidelines say, HN is for "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

That is on topic because it clearly gratifies intellectual curiosity.

Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20536240 is egregious and will cause an account to lose submission privileges here.

Users flag articles. We don't always know why they flag them, but in this case I'd guess that it's a combination of the topic having been covered a great deal already and the articles not adding significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). That means there isn't much intellectual curiosity in them, and intellectual curiosity is the purpose of this site.

Political articles are a borderline area for HN. There is inevitably some political overlap in what gets posted here. At the same time, if we don't do anything to contain them, political topics and battles and flamewars will take over the site completely. We moderate the site to prevent this from happening. One criterion we apply about political topics is whether the thread will merely be a repetition of what has been discussed before or whether there is a chance that the community can have a curiosity-inspired conversation about it. If a discussion turns into a flamewar or is extremely likely to, we are particularly likely to downweight it, because flamewars are the #1 thing that destroy this site and community.

There's more explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013092 and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if you or anyone want it.

Understood. I see your point and will not post on the topic again until something worth the intellectual curiosity arises.

Regards

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