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Comment by Dig1t | Hacker News Reader

I have no idea how to get Dang's attention, but can we talk about why this thread is flagged? How is this not blatant censorship? Tons of people are NOT seeing this thread, it was on the front page before it got flagged, obviously the intention of whoever flagged it.

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The thread could have been flagged because 50 people clicks "flag" in the first few minutes.

Dang was working 12 hours ago, he's likely off at the moment.

There are other moderators, though dang remains the public face.

Hopefully Dang can sticky this for a bit to make up for the lost time.

If you were to read the site guidelines, you would have a clear idea of how to get my attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

@dang I just read the guidelines and don’t see any mention of how to get your/a mods attention in posts unless you’re referring to “email hn@ycombinator.com”?

Is that the proper way?

Yes. In particular, this note that calls that out explicitly is applicable:

> "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

Also note the Contact link in the footer.

(Also note that @dang doesn't do anything other than display the five glyphs @, d, a, n, and g.)

Precisely!

I've sent an email (as suggested in prior threads) regarding the flagging of this article. I am sure other users have as well. Hopefully someone makes a comment here soon.

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