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by ByThyGrace 512 days ago
> there is a range of topics that, even when heavily upvoted by the community, tend to disappear within minutes.

Such as? Disappear as in getting flagged?

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Large portions of the things posted to the Oakland subreddit get flagged and removed. Almost anything mentioning the city in a negative light gets flagged. Crime reports / trends, anything.

Sarcastically chuckling about the state of the city as a long time resident gets the ban hammer.

It is really quite something.

Luigi
Massively controversial on HN, leading to lots of flagged posts (due to a mix of legitimate flame bait and emotional kneejerk).