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Flaggers' accounts should automatically be added to a top comment once a post hit's the flagged threshold and they have flagged more than X articles in the last Y days to publicize if the flagger is prolific and which types of threads they are prolific at flagging.

Just tidying up? OK that's anonymous. Regularly shaping discourse? At least make it visible.

That would be too much transparency for people who also not supper happy with democracy.

They have flagged all recent political posts. Pretending to be apolitical which is comical.

HN has a lot of Russian and Chinese users so stories related to these are very quickly flagged.

I feel like I see a lot more communicating/defending/explaining on Chinese adjacent discussion. Like legit outlaying of reasoned depth to their positions, background, etc that really helped me understand their view. I actually wish there was more of it here even if it gets political. There is so little cross pollination of understanding between the US and China on an average person level.