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I've heard there is auto-flag present when there are a lot of arguments happening in comments.

Edit: see here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850

Dang said there is "flame war detector" that flags posts.

The flame war detector doesn't flag the post (users do), but it does downrank them. You can see it in "hot" discussions. Say they go from 20 to 100 comments in minutes, mostly with deeply nested chats consisting of 2-3 people in a back and forth. The submission will fall off the front page quickly, but not be marked flagged unless users flagged it.

I don't see a lot of arguments happening here.

A lot of the stories talking about current administration gets flagged rapidly even those purely technical.

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