[AnimalMuppet]

I'd like to see your concrete evidence for that claim.

The alternate hypothesis is that regular members are flagging political articles because they're tired of the huge upswing in political articles since January 20.

How are you telling the difference between the two?

[sitkack]

From hanging out on [new] and seeing what gets flagged and what doesn't.

Flagging is just a 100x powerful downvote button that is getting abused by folks that want to change the narrative. I don't know what the karma value is for flagging, but it should be raised and flags should come out of a leaky bucket.

> I'd like to see your concrete evidence for that claim.

Please with the language.

[AnimalMuppet]

> > I'd like to see your concrete evidence for that claim.

> Please with the language.

What do you think is wrong with that language?

And, hanging out on [new] and seeing what gets flagged is not evidence for your claim. It gives you no evidence of who is flagging or why - it only shows you what is getting flagged. That doesn't tell you that MAGA people are doing it, or that they're doing it because it puts something in a bad light. That's just your assumption.

Some of us are just tired of politics here on HN. That doesn't make us MAGA. It doesn't make us Trump supporters. It doesn't mean we support this particular deportation. It just means we don't want to discuss it on HN.

[sitkack]

I also see the comments on those posts trying to downplay and deflect. Other political posts make it through just fine. Anything mentioning Elron gets insta flagged. It is the same exact behavior we so with anything even remotely critical of Israel.

I didn't say you were MAGA, nor did I say that all people flagging are MAGA. I have flagged plenty of stories that were about to or already descended into a toxic mess.

These stories are getting flagged with zero comments, and when unflagged, go on to have interesting conversations.

Flagging is not a solution for seeing stories you are not interested in. Downvoting is.

You know full well that any evidence one is going to have is circumstantial. It is a coy way of saying, "you have no concrete evidence, shutup until you do".

[AnimalMuppet]

Kind of. I was saying that "our MAGA supporting members are brigading any story that puts the limited operation in a bad light" is an accusation of bad faith by the downvoters. Such an accusation is in fact the kind of thing where you should shut up until you have evidence.

"Assume good faith" is part of the site guidelines, after all.

> Flagging is not a solution for seeing stories you are not interested in. Downvoting is.

For comments. For stories, flagging is all you can do.

Also note that I am not the downvoter of these stories. I just don't think that everyone who does can be lumped into your "MAGA supporting" category.