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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by derefr on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:48PM (#13110019)
The thing is, the people who are being racist, misogynist, fascist, etc. are also being political. And so their posts will get flagged too.

I think the idea is, basically, that rather than "calling out" these things and getting into a big argument about them each and every time they happen, you just (indicate to the mods that you want to) blow them out of the sky.

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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by ben0x539 on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:36PM (#13110445)
> The thing is, the people who are being racist, misogynist, fascist, etc. are also being political. And so their posts will get flagged too.

No offense to the HN moderation team, but I have very low confidence that this is going to be how it works out. :/

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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by seldo on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:20AM (#13112440)
How does one contact the moderators to let them know that a comment is racist/sexist/whatever? I don't see any "flag" UI at the comment level, and I don't know who the mods are by name.
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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by grzm on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:37AM (#13112498)
If you click on the timestamp of a comment, you should see a 'flag' link. I don't recall, though it might be karma gated. You can also reach the mods via email to hn [at] ycombinator.com.
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