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Every post I've seen recently talking about all the false flags here has ended up rapidly flagged.

Feel free to prove me wrong, by showing one single post on this topic, at any time over the past couple weeks, which wasn't flagged. Such an obvious way to manipulate discussion here needs to be addressed from time to time; now being one of those times.

The discussion in those threads (ie [6]) shows widespread agreement; far from your assertion of what "the bulk of the community wants".

You can assert that stories about DOGE are not being deliberately and widely suppressed here, or that they are but for a good reason - but I don't believe you. And I don't think you believe yourself either. If you do, you shouldn't.

[6] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42900560

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Nobody is saying those threads aren't getting flagged. The issues are who is flagging them, why they're flagging them, and what we should do about it. I've been posting about that a great deal.

If you want a serious answer, I need you to engage with what I've actually said and explained, not some imaginary substitute which you then find hard to believe. If you follow the link in my GP comment, and the links there, you'll find all you need to know and then some. You're welcome to disbelieve any of that, but please at least disbelieve something I actually said.

Sorry for being tetchy—I'm happy to answer any HN user who has a question, but I need you guys to do a bit of work too. There aren't enough hours to always repeat everything from scratch. If there's a question that I haven't already answered many times, I'd like to know what is and I'd be happy to try to answer it. Cross-examinations, though? not so much.

> The issues are who is flagging them, why they're flagging them, and what we should do about it. I've been posting about that a great deal.

Are you saying that this is a discussion we could have as a community, without the thread on it getting flagged? Or are we supposed to just listen to what you have to say and leave things there.

The short answer is that meta submissions are nearly always off topic but there's plenty of discussion going on in the comments.

However, this is the sort of question I was talking about. Had you familiarized yourself with the relevant material, your question would have answered itself. For example, here's a recent subthread with plenty of back-and-forth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993029. No one was "just listening and leaving things there", and I responded 20 times in that thread alone.

I don't expect you (or anyone) to see all of these, but there's a lot of redundancy, so you don't need to see all of them.

> this is the sort of question I was talking about. Had you familiarized yourself with the relevant material, your question would have answered itself.

I wasn't asking what the rules are, but thanks for revealing your condescension.

I was asking if you, Dang, the moderator of this site, would allow such a discussion. And indeed, you answered my question; if indirectly.

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