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by molteanu 2334 days ago
@mods, there was the news the other day about Kobe's death. It got flagged, and for good reason.

Why is this coronavirus stuff not flagged also? There are currently 3 articles on the front page related to this. It just slipped or is there a reason for this?

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It's a (mildly) scientific discussion. Lots of medical discussion happens on HN due to their scientific nature.

Kobe's death, while tragic, is more along the lines of current event discussion.

It's related to aviation which always tends to make the front page. While this particular thread I think very much belongs here, there have been a bunch of links to nothing more than news articles over the last few days which are of little interest from a HN perspective.
Users do the flagging