Hacker News Reader

Good. The discussion quickly became the 2025 version of this, everyone proceeding to argue with him:

https://thehardtimes.net/blog/why-i-quit-my-job-and-left-my-...

Good what? I wasn't complaining that shit gets memory holed here, I observed something I had never seen before.

The discussion seems generally really informative, it's mostly the people who don't want the topic discussed who are shit at discussing it. It's a skill issue.

Annmnnnnnd we’re flagged.

This is normal. Each user flag downranks the post until it accumulates enough of them to be "flagged".

I do wonder why they downvoted, denial? ideological capture? are the majority of users in HN oligarchs?

I went looking and you are correct. Super interesting. It appears there's some auto mod feature or something?

It's nothing new; happens frequently. My guess is it's a compromise between a hard flag kill that silences all discussion, and letting the submission continue trending.