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Why does everything D0G3 get flagged?
by ketlag 2y ago
Why does everything D0G3 get flagged?
- croes 2y agoTech Bros stick together?
- duxup 2y agoYeah it's a pattern for sure. Lotta folks seem to not want other people to talk about this kind of thing. Same goes for most other Trump administration articles. I get not wanting to read it, but that's not what flagging is for IMO...
- ryandrake 2y agoVisit /active: https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active You'll see every single article criticizing DOGE has been flagged by users, in order to try to bury it.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoBizarre that startup news isn't a place we can talk about the US government turning into a startup.
- ketlag 2y agoIm surprised my comment is still up!
- AlecSchueler 2y agoI guess the HN crowd are too able to understand what's happening. There's too much specific criticism here. Who is blocking these discussions? Where else can we go? Every day the discussions here are blocked. YCombinator has taken a side and it is a worrying one.
- dragonwriter 2y agoThere are a very large number of discussion venues online that do not tend to penalize controversial political issues. Many of them have strong political biases (but, then again, so does HN.)
- AlecSchueler 2y agoI'm aware that there are other discussion forums but the demographic here has a very specific technical knowledge which is hugely relevant to current events. I want to see these things discussed by people with that knowledge. Other forums have different userbases. That's why it's distressing to see YCombinator take such a clear side in this, or at least not seem to care about the clear abuse of the flagging system.
- ryandrake 2y agoI agree. If the articles were "Major government IT system crashes and loses data" or "NASA victim of cyber-attack" or "United States Digital Service product roadmap," then the articles would be on-topic and unflagged. But, as soon as the words Elon or DOGE enter the picture, they're insta-flagged. Yes, these topics tend to get heated but that doesn't make them off-topic or irrelevant to a tech news site, or justify user flagging.
- tuesdaynight 2y agoWell, I agreed with the parent's comment until I clicked on your link. I'm not american, but I understand how important these topics are for you. However, /active is completely filled with US government news and politics. I would not access HN if that was the homepage, honestly.
- Otter-man 2y agoevery day a dozen critical of Musk/DOGE discussions land on HN main, and zero non-critical/positive ones it is an illusion of being surrounded by brigades of conservatives censoring you, if anything - the opposite is true when I tried submitting a positive take on recent happenings in DC - my own post was flagged withing 5 minutes, and I was chastised for posting a link to nazi platform (it was a link to X longpost)