Ask HN: Do the pro-Google voting rings get paid extra to flag these articles on Saturdays or do you donate this time?
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1) Automated flame detection drops the submission down the page
2) Political discussion gets flagged. Quite a lot of this thread is about US taxes.
3) Lack of upvotes. It only got about 70 upvotes.
#2 I don't see why you would flag the topic and not the political comments. Moreover we see plenty of topics where comments go political that don't get egregiously flagged down.
#1, I'll plead ignorance on any automated flame detection but I'm very skeptical that's what we're seeing. I'll stick with Occam's razor: time and again the articles this happens to are either critical of google, or favorable to MS or Apple.
#2 I don't see why you would flag the topic and not the political comments. Moreover we see plenty of topics where comments go political that don't get egregiously flagged down.
#1, I'll plead ignorance on any automated flame detection but I'm very skeptical that's what we're seeing. I'll stick with Occam's razor: time and again the articles this happens to are either critical of google, or favorable to MS or Apple.
Examples: