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Comment by jdmark | Hacker News Reader

The topics that I submit are mostly related to new technological developments in the defense industry. I try to give leads in new military technology so if engineers and software developers want to contribute or start a career path in the defense industry they have a leg up.

This particular post about Russian war crimes has over 60 comments which I think is significant and the post should not be flagged.

I am a high profile Ukraine War activist and what I post I think matters. Quite a few people in the defense industry and government read the posts that I submit to Hacker News YCombinator. I have a very large following in government and the international defense industries. I am working on a better work flow for news aggregation to bring more relevant up-to-date news to this community here and on X.com.

When it comes to war crimes and stories that relate to human atrocities I think an acception should be made here.

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It's really up to the community and mods what counts as tech news, and clearly they disagree with you.

I just wanted to make sure it wasn't Russian trolls that flagged this post as it is the first or one of the first and the article is about Russian "death camps". I try to focus entirely on engineering and tech related to the war in Ukraine in hopes of recruiting and encouraging engineers and software developers to help improve the situation in Ukraine by improving their technological capability while also offering opportunities to participate and develop their careers at the same time.

I'm working on my work/information flow so I'm able to spread better tech related news here at HackerNews YCombinator.

I enjoy reading and contributing the highly technical articles as that is what we want here. We don't want low level shit here. Slipping in one of these off-topic related articles is okay every now and then but I thought it would be at least interesting for us to read something about the condition of prisoners and their deaths due to ill-treatment. The world needs to know.

My news aggregation website is coming soon. It is just a matter of risk, reward, and maintenance with the site itself. If I had the funding and did not have to work a normal day job I would do it over night.

Cherry pick news articles that fit a certain theme and post them? Anyone can do that. Aggregate maps and data, sure.

I think what matters most in this type of post is the type of discussion that results, even if it is off topic.

Others disagree.

> It's really up to the community and mods what counts as tech news, and clearly they disagree with you.

I don't think that's true. There's indeed plenty of engagement in this discussion, quiver above the average engagement in HN, but somehow it sounds like there's some kind of counter pressure to bury this particular discussion.

A high engagement to low voting score is actually a negative indicator, which is an opinion held by the moderation team because if that ratio is bad enough it gets auto-deranked and possibly flagged.

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