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If you do a search for the word rape, there are tons of discussions about it, so it's definitely not categorically off topic. I'm going to email hn@ycombinator.com per the FAQ since the way this keeps happening feels abusive and against the spirit of HN.

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As far as I know, flags come from the community, not the mods. Hacker News is designed so that it doesn't even take many flags to affect a thread.

You can complain to the mods all you like but there's nothing you can do about the zeitgeist. The mods also won't change their own policies.

Flags mostly come from the community; sometimes from the mods. When the post is a submission (as opposed to a comment), they almost always come from the community.

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