Is anybody keeping stats on what kind of posts HN mods flag? Just noticed this was flagged after a for some reason https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966351
Flagging is primarily done by users. Once a sufficient number of flag votes are accumulated, the article becomes marked as flagged.
Oh I see. Thanks. Considering it got up voted by 40 users it seems, based on other posts flagged before, anything critical of the USA eventually gets flagged.
Sometimes it is because the quality of discussion deteriorated