Edit: it appears that every post about Israel is getting flagged (often after receiving tons of upvotes and often hundreds of comments): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
where is this censorship coming from? @dang?
Story has 46 points and is 29 minutes old at the time I'm writing this comment.
Are we not allowed to discuss the actions of one of the largest tech companies?
Or HN and it's mods are bias because other political piece's are posted here often.
I also think many googlers are opposed to Google's military contracts with Israel, but likely don't know this is happening.
I see this trend a lot on this site whenever saying anything even slightly derogatory about google. Might be a fun side project to work on to quantify this.
The only thing I can think of to say about this is how disconnected people are if they think this is so problematic. How is work supposed to be done if everyone complains, protests and disrupts work? The top comment on the thread right now says as much too.
I’m pretty sure if # of comments exceeds the number of upvotes, the story is down-weighted automatically.
Flagging stories also automatically downweights if enough people flag, I believe
That’s not the only variable though.