[ximeng]

Most but not all politics and social commentary gets flagged pretty quickly. Some tech news also gets flagged. It would actually be interesting to have a page for flagged stories for transparency.

Getting responses from people actually involved in making tech decisions (like Gratilup here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12113571, and recently one of the original authors of Excel CSV export) is part of the appeal of this site to me.

[lorenzhs]

you can enable showdead in the settings, flagged articles will show up as [dead] in /newest.

[ximeng]

Thanks. Some show up as flagged, some show up as dead, but lots of live stories in between. I'm more interested in the ones where they had lots of votes in a short time but didn't make it past the flag process.

[lorenzhs]

Then maybe http://hnrankings.info/ is what you're looking for? Front page articles which get "flagged off the front page" don't end up [flagged] or [dead], instead they drop in rank quickly. You can often see that quite well from the charts on that site.

[ximeng]

That would probably be closer and I suspect they have the data to get what I want, which is more like a list of flagged stories to understand some of the inherent bias in the site.