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Comment by threatofrain | Hacker News Reader

> This is a discussion that absolutely needs to be had, and frankly it looks like collusion between Reddit and HN (while I doubt that's why).

Where is HN colluding on this?

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It's been (as of my post) knocked off the front page. It's more likely people flagging "non-technology/startup" drama.

http://hnrankings.info/26554697/

If it were flagged shouldn't the post itself read as (dead flagged)? That's been my experience with articles that were flagged off the front page.

I'm not seeing that here.

No, there's a middle ground where a post is simply de-ranked. Which, absolutely, makes it hard to tell what happened as an outsider. IIRC, basically a "flag" also counts as a bunch of downvotes, in addition to adding up to a threshold where it actually marks a post as "flagged".

Given the clear conflict of interest at play here (Reddit is a YC company and are seemingly preparing to IPO in the near future) this post would be a great candidate for additional transparency from dang

Now it's fully flagged, and I think the information you just stated means it will stay that way.

I just don't get why a user would flag this.

Another post appears to have been suppressed in the same way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26556187

Probably because it smells like reddit drama and is not really a good basis for a curious debate.

Users flagged it. Moderators didn't see it (until now) and haven't touched it.

Anything else?

No, thanks, I appreciate your response.

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