[tinkerdol]

I wonder why the techcrunch article just got flagged? (how do you even flag something here, do you need to have an account with a certain number of points?)

discussion was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13555124

[archagon]

HN users compulsively flag any articles with political relevance. Unfortunately.

Harder to justify when so many of them are directly related to tech and the SV startup scene.

[mjmsmith]

This post has more top-level comments criticizing the decision, so I guess it stays.

[mjmsmith]

Comments from the previous thread moved here. Since I can't delete the above, consider it retracted, and thanks sctb.

[tinkerdol]

Yep... and this post is already downvoted to the 2nd page. Despite gathering over 70 comments during the last hour...

[grzm]

Yes, there's a minimum karma necessary to flag submissions. I don't recall the threshold off the top of my head.

I think a lot of members are feeling some degree of politics exhaustion. There's still plenty of discussion going on.

[Waterluvian]

I see a flag button. I think it's points? I have 1325