When someone posts "why was this flagged" or "why did this disappear so quickly from the front page" it makes me think of De Niro driving alone in the final scene of Taxi Driver.
Not to pick on this post in particular. The gold medal for such comments was a John Gruber blogpost accusing HN of blackballing him. As a runner up, there are the requisite accusatory comments on every flagged Israel post.
flagged is different from uninteresting. gruber indulging conspiracies before considering that he might be uninteresting outside his audience is pretty travis bickle-y. i am asking why a phone hack concerning a major political figure would be irrelevant or uninteresting to hn.
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 5.6 ms ] thread[flagged] Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions (vanityfair.com)
557 points | 8 days ago | 241 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201259
and the easy answer is because a small number of users like yourself chose to click on [flag] - eight days ago.
but why did they flag it?
Not to pick on this post in particular. The gold medal for such comments was a John Gruber blogpost accusing HN of blackballing him. As a runner up, there are the requisite accusatory comments on every flagged Israel post.