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What does flagged mean on posts

Why do some of my posts get flagged what is the law around here exactly?

Check out “Guidelines,” linked from the site footer: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Users who accumulate sufficient karma gain the ability to "flag" a post. When a sufficient number of different users with "flag" power click "flag" on a post, then it becomes [flagged].

More description here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173809

"... what is the law around here exactly?"

They have guidelines posted. But in reality, as with real laws, there are things that are prosecuted that shouldn't be, and things that aren't prosecuted that should be.

For example, I have seen many insulting postings that don't get flagged, while many off-topic political posts go completely unchecked, and are largely group-think.

So anyone can flag stuff, just cause they don't like something.... So how can you ask questions and ask for advise with out upsetting someone and getting flagged

How can we stop people from spamming us with disingenuous communication about dog pills and similar subjects?

Yeah but what if my dog really needs those pills

Talk about it on a different forum. It isn't like there aren't hundreds of other forums.

I mean, it could be that someone is a bio hacker and has some knowledge on the subject here... or startups disrupting the space via tech.

To ask a question, submit a text post that asks it. Here’s examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

Basically, put your question in the title field on https://news.ycombinator.com/submit, fill in the text field with the details and explanation, and leave the URL field empty.

I asked a common sense question once in some Julian Assange thread… flagged. For some people some subjects take on an irrational religious experience. Anything that is not a forceful agreement must be destroyed.

I get it so if it looks like advertising or spam it gets flagged ok ok so I need to word posts better and maybe ask somehow for comments on a url but not link out to it? Or how

The URL might still be advertising and users might still not like it. No amount of wording could change that. Sometimes it's "not hackernews material", it can't be forced.

I get it I'll not push my website so hard and just ask for advise on security or thoughts on subjects, that actually are interesting. Share it only to get feedback not to get views. Again new here good day kind human.

Please also check the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Ahh ok something that sparks interest here I'll try again.

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