I think there are a lot of HN users who are flagging political/US election-related topics in general, especially those that don't have a strong tech angle.
Just for clarification, as I understand it, "flagged" is a result of users marking it flagged. I'm not sure how a submission gets marked dead (for example, if it's moderator-only or can be marked dead if there are enough flags)
There's been a lot of discussion on other similarly politically-charged threads as well. For example:
Just for clarification, as I understand it, "flagged" is a result of users marking it flagged. I'm not sure how a submission gets marked dead (for example, if it's moderator-only or can be marked dead if there are enough flags)
There's been a lot of discussion on other similarly politically-charged threads as well. For example:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12839742
Those are just the first couple occurrences I found. I don't intend them to be representative of any particular bias.