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You can spell out Hitler and North Korea here. Meta has no power here.

Incorrect. Users are running autoflag bots.

Every day you make comments that are downvoted (and probably flagged) by several people... I think it's quite possible that the real issue is not "other people."

Usually people who feel (or are) targeted are not 100% innocent.

There's a clear pattern where comments containing certain words are flagged much more often than comments containing mildly cens-red versions of those words. Could be HN itself but if we assume HN isn't lying about how its algorithm works (a big assumption) then it must be user flag bots.

It's not just my comments - you see something similar with headlines on the front page that contain certain names like El-n M-sk. They will accumulate hundreds of points and comments and then be cens-red.

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