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I get why this got flagged and I'm kind of sad for that.

I found Mueller to be highly ethical at times and driven by irrationality (to the point of disingenuousness) at other times. There was a lot to cover about him.

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Queen of England dies? Not flagged.

Chuck Norris dies? Not flagged.

There's a very particular kind of thing that gets flagged.

What I find most interesting is that HN posters seem to overwhelmingly skew liberal, but HN flaggers lean extremist “conservative”. They rarely post, but completely control the discourse of the posters. Thats a crazy dynamic.

It just pushes everything to the middle. If you think logically about it, since there are few if any conservative posts, it makes sense that flagging appears to be conservative because the majority of posts that need to be flagged are liberal. If suddenly there were lots of conservative posts, the liberal flaggers would appear.

If you want evidence of this consider comments. Conservative comments are often quickly downvoted.

That's one possible interpretation. Another possible one is people don't want to see HN become Trump, Trump, Trump and maybe some other story like the rest of the news.

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