They get flagged because people flag them. I'm guessing given all the news on Twitter that has dominated the site recently that plenty of HNers are tied of it.
I think it is interesting news, unfortunately the discussion around Twitter and almost always around Trump is not interesting. There are few insightful comments and mostly people wildly speculating with high confidence on whatever confirms their priors
Apparently there used to be a "vouch" link that would appear to counteract flags, but it seems like they got rid of it at some point in the past few years.
There isn't much interesting or curious to discuss. We can all play guessing games about Musk's motivations or speculate on what will happen to Twitter/Elon/Truth/Trump.
Elon unbanned in a opaque way. He tried to offload responsibility onto twitter users even though it contradicts and confirms his past statements on lifting bans. We already knew he wanted to do it, but he also recently claimed some council would be involved.
It is only 'news' when it suits the majority of HNers, such as Trump schadenfreude that will certainly reach the front page. [0] They won't admit that, but they know it is true.
It is a complete lie when HNers are saying they are 'tired' of Elon, Trump, Truth Social, Twitter, etc. They are tired of articles and news that goes against their confirmation bias like this one.
Any articles confirming their bias on misery for the above, it is 'good news' here. HN is not tired of that hence why [0] wasn't flagged, unlike this post.
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Why do these threads keep getting flagged? There should be a clear explanation.
They get flagged because people flag them. I'm guessing given all the news on Twitter that has dominated the site recently that plenty of HNers are tied of it.
I think it is interesting news, unfortunately the discussion around Twitter and almost always around Trump is not interesting. There are few insightful comments and mostly people wildly speculating with high confidence on whatever confirms their priors
how many people need to flag it to have it not appear in rankings?
Is there a way for users to 'unflag' it?
Sadly no.
If a few users flag it, it's done.
Apparently there used to be a "vouch" link that would appear to counteract flags, but it seems like they got rid of it at some point in the past few years.
It's not just that we're tired of Twitter. We're tired of Trump, too. It's a political topic rather than a technical one.
There isn't much interesting or curious to discuss. We can all play guessing games about Musk's motivations or speculate on what will happen to Twitter/Elon/Truth/Trump.
Elon unbanned in a opaque way. He tried to offload responsibility onto twitter users even though it contradicts and confirms his past statements on lifting bans. We already knew he wanted to do it, but he also recently claimed some council would be involved.
You can probably pick plenty of other reasons from the guidelines as to why this gets flagged though. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because most people on HN are super-anti Trump
It is only 'news' when it suits the majority of HNers, such as Trump schadenfreude that will certainly reach the front page. [0] They won't admit that, but they know it is true.
It is a complete lie when HNers are saying they are 'tired' of Elon, Trump, Truth Social, Twitter, etc. They are tired of articles and news that goes against their confirmation bias like this one.
Any articles confirming their bias on misery for the above, it is 'good news' here. HN is not tired of that hence why [0] wasn't flagged, unlike this post.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691912
True... but I won't signup for Truth Social, because it requires a phone number.