Ask HN: Is the threshold for flagging submissions on HN too low?

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I see highly upvoted stories such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035977 getting hidden away because they get flagged, even though the article and discussion are quite sensible.

I understand the need to avoid a political flamefest, I do worry it leads to interesting content being essentially censored.

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What do you mean 'hidden away'? The post was seen by hundreds, thousands maybe. Upvoted a bunch and commented on a bunch before being flagged. Not to mention, it's a dupe/syndicated content from another site, which isn't flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021873

So it's not nothing. There is some engagement, the discussion maybe then devolved and that's it. Stuff moves fast round here, and there's been a particularly heavy influx of headlines lately, but amidst any influx of attempt to flag things to hell, all is not lost, there's still engagement and sharing.

There is definitely something going on with it. It’s the only submission where this doesn’t work

https://hnrankings.info/43021873/

It’s not hyperbole to say that President Musk is ripping up the government and he is usurping power like we have never seen from either party.

Go down 21 ids and here's another where HN rankings doesn't work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021852

https://hnrankings.info/43021852/

I think that the distribution of who can flag leans towards a specific cohort of tech.

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