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It's pretty ridiculous, especially for a website that pushes free speech so much as its guiding principles. The information is clearly "of interest to a hacker" by just how many people are upvoting the articles and how relevant it is to the US election in literally weeks.

It stinks that people can just flag away facts that make them uncomfortable like this. It's kind of abuse of the flagging system IMO.

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> especially for a website that pushes free speech so much as its guiding principles

Where does HN do that?!

Political news is all over the internet,some people like to have spaces to get away from it.

Click the "vouch" button if you don't agree with the flag.

How much karma is required for that? I don't see the option

30 I believe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548

weird, I'm well above that threshold but didn't notice the option. Not usually in the business of of flagging/vouching

That's probably part of the problem. Anybody can just sit around flagging content with a low karma threshold and much fewer people are allowed to vouch back. It's the exact opposite of the downvote threshold on here which is designed to keep people from just killing off opinions they disagree with.

You get vouch and flag permissions at the same karma level.

On this page, I see an option to flag, but not one to vouch. I've never seen an option to vouch.

Ah, the vouch button replaces the flag button when there are enough flags to kill the post (it's then [flagged][dead]), you have to have "showdead" enabled in your preferences to see those of course

Thanks!

Okay, that seems to make it worse then. Because I can see that this post is flagged, but since it's not dead, I cannot help balance out the flagging. Only after it's completely dead can anyone try to resurrect it? Seems... unbalanced. But hey, overall the site works better than most, so okay.

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