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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20846681
At first I assumed that the HN moderators have moved it to page 2, as they do.. but then the [flagged] attribute showed up.
Is it really healthy that a small number of people, if coordinated, can shut down any story?
Unless a political story has a strong tech slant, expect it to disappear off the front page quickly no mater how many upvotes it gets.
It's a political story and is thus likely to be flagged as off-topic by a large number of people. Unless a political story has a strong tech slant, expect it to disappear off the front page quickly no mater how many upvotes it gets.
It's a political story and is thus likely to be flagged as off-topic by a large number of people. Unless a political story has a strong tech slant, expect it to disappear off the front page quickly no mater how many upvotes it gets.
It was about the Hong Kong police using a new technology (likely "DNA paint") to mark protestors, likely for future prosecution
Doesn't seem like abuse to me. Nothing particularly new or interesting IMHO, political mainstream topic, people already breaking the rules in the comments, ... are in sum good enough reasons to flag.