[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.