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LinuxBender
Being a divisive and emotionally charged political issue the articles are quickly flagged by members. It is possible to see them if one enables "show dead" in their profile. I believe it takes four people to successfully flag. Some details about how flagging work are in this repo. [1] not my repo and has some open issues

A [dead] submission (that does not also show [flagged]) is killed by a moderator or by the software. They will only be shown to users who have showdead enabled in their profile. A submission can simultaneously be [flagged] and [dead].

[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...

jjgreen
Not all are by members, I have seen 2-3 examples of posts which quickly make it to the front-page, and then vanish; the post is still on the "new" page and does not have a [flagged] or [dead] prefix. I can only assume that there is a "shadow flagging" mechanism which could only be applied by the moderators.
LinuxBender
Shadow-banned domains will show up as [dead] to everyone except the submitter. One hint to the submitter is that there will not be a discuss link.

Submissions can be quickly de-ranked by flags and may fall off the front page before they are finally [flagged]. Flags count as heavy down-votes for a submission. Beyond that one would have to email Daniel dang to get more specific details. hn@ycombinator.com

jjgreen
All of the examples I've seen were not my submissions. In each case I searched the first 5-6 pages and nothing. The submissions on the "new" page remained untouched by prefixes for some time but were eventually marked [flagged].

My remarks on this some days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38122063

I'll not be emailing Dang, the moderators are free to do as they please, it's their forum. A bit more transparency would be appreciated though.

minimaxir
Generally any political content without a tech angle gets flagged by users.