Ask HN: Does HN has content reviewers?

[noteanddata]

how does HN ensure no content is violating the laws? usually maintaining such a big traffic web site would come with lots of spam, porn and so on, right? I assume the ranking algorithm can not delete those contents.

[Hackbraten]

Users can flag posts. Once a low-quality post gets flagged enough times, I presume it becomes hidden.

[noteanddata]

so it's purely based on user voting? and there is no human interaction?

that's kind of amazing!