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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by reitanqild on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:14PM (#13859914)
Publicly pointing out who flagged a story seems like a bad idea.

Possibly better idea:

Moderators could take a look at unfairly flagged stories and silently adjust flag weights for flag-abusing users.

This is of course based on my unscientific thought that the majority of interesting (IMO) stories flagged of the frobt page are removed by competitors (political or business-wise) rather than moderators.

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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by detaro on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:32PM (#13862638)
Unless I'm completely mistaken, the mods already do that (at least they've said "we'll take flagging privileges away from users that abuse them")
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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by walterbell on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:30PM (#13860110)
And commercial reputation management / PR firms. See the book Grassroots for Hire.
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