[db48x]

Because it’s off topic. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[Sabinus]

The Hulk Hogan and Pope dying stories aren't flagged. Hell, the Hulk Hogan was unflagged.

The leader of the most powerful democracy on earth doing authoritarian actions and eroding norms is worth discussion.

[tomhow]

> Hell, the Hulk Hogan was unflagged

That story spent all of 9 minutes on the front page. Turning off flags is separate to restoring to the front page, and we don't think it's a good look to have a [flagged] tag on any bereavement post, no matter who the deceased is.

[db48x]

It's worth discussing, but do it elsewhere. Use a different forum, one where it is on topic.