[snicksnak]

How come a link to REUTERS article, with the exact headline is flagged?

[dang]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630159

[baybal2]

There is only one way to flag an article here. For a lot of people to click flag.

And given this happening 7:00 San Jose time, I doubt any of mods would be logging into their mod account first thing in the morning to manually flag it.

Still telling. Tech industry has a lot of communists.

[dang]

This breaks the site guidelines egregiously. It's also a cartoonish fantasy of the sort that makes me cringe for this community. Please do not post any more of this dross.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[leereeves]

But why is it still flagged 4 hours later? The HN mods can and do turn off user flags on important stories.

Edit: why is this being downvoted? You've never seen dang turn off flags? He admits it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510075

So that raises the question: why not turn off flags on this story?

[dang]

Because these threads are dominated by cartoonish, angry yelling which contains zero intellectual curiosity and therefore is thoroughly off topic. The commenters inundating the threads on these topics are plainly posting out of nationalistic and ideological zeal. That's not what HN is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630172

[Black101]

This is 100% true... and they often do the opposite too... Sometime if feels like they are censoring more then Twitter.

[tim333]

Or a few people with multiple accounts.

[dogma1138]

You need a bit of karma to flag, even more for your flag to count against high karma upvotes.

[Black101]

I think some accounts have higher flagging powers... like mini-mods

[me_me_me]

What if I told you you could be a communist and condemn the atrocities done in the name of communist government. Though calling Chinese government a communist is same as calling North Korea a democratic republic.