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Ask HN: Why are Kyle Rittenhouse articles flagged on HN?

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Re: Ask HN: Why are Kyle Rittenhouse articles flagged on HN?

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It is because it is not the result they wanted. Here is another example: Truth Social recently open sourced their mastodon fork [0] and that was immediately flagged and not covered by the news even though when they were found to have violated the license, that was heavily voted top of this website. With that, not only HN is already breaking their own guidelines, the bias could not be more clearer. On another note, ju…

I don't know who "they" is, but HN moderation doesn't work that way.

We don't usually turn off flags on hot-blockbuster-controversy stories because those don't usually lead to intellectually curious conversation.

The other site is banned the same way other primarily-political sites are banned on HN, regardless of their politics.

Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? We've asked you repeatedly and you're still doing it. If you keep it up, that is going to get you banned here. No, not out of political disagreement (or "them") - it would be just the same if your politics went the other way.

Re: Ask HN: Why are Kyle Rittenhouse articles flagged on HN?

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They get flagged for a variety of reasons: - They are considered "off-topic" as outlined by the HN guidelines (Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.) - They are unlikely to result in "good faith" debates about the case giv…

Strange that this discussion also got flagged.

Besides this trial has demonstrated us that the big tech has too much power over politics and that is something we all need to discuss urgently.

Re: Ask HN: Why are Kyle Rittenhouse articles flagged on HN?

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post #8

It is because it is not the result they wanted. Here is another example: Truth Social recently open sourced their mastodon fork [0] and that was immediately flagged and not covered by the news even though when they were found to have violated the license, that was heavily voted top of this website. With that, not only HN is already breaking their own guidelines, the bias could not be more clearer. On another note, ju…

I supported the verdict, and even I don't think that discussion belongs here.

Re: Ask HN: Why are Kyle Rittenhouse articles flagged on HN?

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They get flagged for a variety of reasons: - They are considered "off-topic" as outlined by the HN guidelines (Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.) - They are unlikely to result in "good faith" debates about the case giv…

If they are flagged b/c they are unlikely to result in "good faith" debates, isn't that effectively the squashing of debate? Because the alternative is allowing the post, and down-voting individual, bad-faith comments.

I'd also note that there are a lot of articles about FB, privacy laws etc that arguably are about "politics" (if not distinct from "law").

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