Second comment: based on the poster's recent submission history, the flagged / dead posts would have ended up that way under any circumstances, would probably have the account banned for pursuing some weird agenda on a tech discussion site if it was brought to moderator attention, and in no way have anything to do with "botnets"
Happy to discuss (in good faith)
Two hours in the whole 'Ask HN' submission received 1 upvote although 8 different users commented. So my understanding is most commenters here, and likely more, thought this discussion is not relevant and interesting enough to get more attention.
(I didn't downvote your comment, somebody else did.)
The AskHN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32803999) isn't flagged. It has 2 points, it starts with 1 point so one user upvoted. 'showdead' is covered in the FAQ.
> This has been censored by the moderators a few times
I'm not sure this is accurate, I'm pretty sure moderated comments just show as [dead], whereas things flagged by the community show [flagged] in addition to [dead].
As for why you're being flagged, from an outsider perspective your recent posts are accusations of an unknown person with no further discussion being possible due to a lack of info.
I'm not sure there's a conspiracy theory following you around, your posts need more of a to and fro than just a to. Try optimising for discussion rather than soapbox
E: Happened to see your latest flag in real-time.. try being less pissed off about stuff too when you post.
It's a site for discussing interesting things, not really for rants about whatever just got you wound up. I understand you're charged and ready to go but from an outside angle that's kinda boring if I don't already agree with you, and if I do agree with you then again there's no discussion to be had
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Not really too relevant other than I think you might like the read, there's an article here that looks into Hacker News moderation which includes some clarification from HN mods on how stuff works https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/13/Analyzing-HN.html
The things I share are relevant to the tech community at large. None of it's about me personally, but things that could affect any webmaster. These are major abuses were talking about here committed at the behest of large powerful corporations. People arent anywhere near as pissed off enough as they should be. I feel like I'm witnessing the death of the internet in real-time. We've quickly gotten to a point where social media platforms are blatantly harming children by enabling public figures to peddle illicit drugs and where random trolls can get your entire website taken down over practically nothing but a few false-flag comments. To say whats happening is disturbing would be an understatement.
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing."
So sorry if you find it boring, but my parents raised me to stand up for whats right even if its unpopular.
If you know it's going to get flagged the quote doesn't make any sense, net result you are still doing nothing if your posts all get flagged before anyone sees them. You're just wasting time really.
Note that this thread we're in now, one you framed as a discussion rather than a rant, got a fair amount of response and is not flagged. Learn from the data or don't I guess.
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For what it's worth I do wish I'd used a different word than boring, I meant no judgement on the content of your posts. When it comes to creating content for others to consume I tend to use boring to describe things that aren't actively engaging rather than subjects I'm not interested in (for example "this video we're making gets boring at the 3 minute mark, can we speed up the pace there?"). I do realise the rest of the world doesn't work that way and usually I'll be more specific, I was tired when posting and that one slipped through.
You could be talking about my favourite topic in the world but if you come at me all fired up and red faced about it I'm gonna get exhausted (bored) just as fast as if you'd come at me speaking in monotone. I should have gone with "disengaging" maybe.
Also, why do people try to sneak Epoch Times articles in via archive sites? They're garbage.
No idea who Evon Latrail is. HN archive search has only one result from 6 months ago. A youtube video with no upvotes or comments. Not a relevant interesting person?
I have my suspicions that comments with certain words and phrases in (aside from swear words) are being auto-flagged. It tends to happen very soon after submitting.