[krapp]

I wouldn't even blame it on the mods and higher ups. There are enough people here invested in Sam Altman either through YC or AI that mutually aligned interests alone will cause a story like this to get squashed, every time. No conspiracy needed.

And that doesn't even take into account the number of people who consider all discussions of this kind to be categorically off topic, and would flag it on principle regardless of the context.

[4oo4]

If you do a search for the word rape, there are tons of discussions about it, so it's definitely not categorically off topic. I'm going to email [e-mail] per the FAQ since the way this keeps happening feels abusive and against the spirit of HN.

[krapp]

As far as I know, flags come from the community, not the mods. Hacker News is designed so that it doesn't even take many flags to affect a thread.

You can complain to the mods all you like but there's nothing you can do about the zeitgeist. The mods also won't change their own policies.

[dang]

Flags mostly come from the community; sometimes from the mods. When the post is a submission (as opposed to a comment), they almost always come from the community.