[thinkingkong]

Now immediately flagged off the front page.

[consumer451]

Sometimes things I post get flagged by users and I get it, fair enough. This time I can only think of malicious reasons.

The only people who I can imagine flagging this post are Meta PR, or users who are bringing their politics into a non-political post. If anyone has any other reasonable explanations, I would love to hear them.

Looks like the title was edited, original title: Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship

[dang]

I didn't see any such pattern in the data. It was flagged by quite a few users, none of whom showed any obvious pattern like affiliation with a company or a political slant. (Edit: I mean none of the ones I looked at. There were too many to look at them all.)

We can only guess why users flag things. In this case, I don't have a good guess, other than that the article title is baity, so I replaced it with more neutral language from the subtitle, and (partly) rolled back the flags.

The flaggers may be correct, in any case, because this thread is noticeably terrible.

[freitasm]

That's why following HN from a RSS feed is invaluable. You get to see everything, even the things groupthink filters out.

[kergonath]

There’s quite a lot of trash flagged for very good reasons, though. I cannot keep up with the full feed.

[freedomben]

Indeed. Some of the most interesting stories on HN never make it past the initial filter. I've seen great posts slip by in obscurity only to get hundreds of votes and hit the front page weeks or months later. There's a lot indeterminism in what makes it to the front page(s) and what doesn't.

[PeterHolzwarth]

Keep in mind this wonderful alternate HN front-send site - it's pretty much taken over for me vs hitting HN's main page: https://hckrnews.com/

This site displays the posted links in chronological order which means stuff that suddenly got booted off the front page still shows up.

[jorts]

It’s on the front page for me.

[anotherhue]

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...

[dang]

Whose salary in this case?