Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories?

Re:Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories? by curtisblaine on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:25AM (#17799094)

Yet a lot of Weinstein stories weren't flagged and two made the frontpage. Looks like bias, so was asking if this kind of implicit bias was common in HN. You flagged Argento's story, did you flag Weinstein's too when it came out?

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Re:Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories? by DanBC on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:31AM (#17799122)

You may want to re-read the guidelines. Especially the bit about emailing the mods.

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Re:Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories? by curtisblaine on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:40AM (#17799156)

I'm not asking the mods why Argento's story was flagged. I'm asking the community if HN has a double standard on what news are "acceptable".

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Re:Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories? by DanBC on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:12AM (#17799277)

Yet again, you don't understand flagging.

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Re:Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories? by svcop3 on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:13AM (#17799281)

You probably already know the answer. There is certainly a liberal bias in the readership and that bias in naturally reflected in what is flagged.

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Re:Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories? by iron0013 on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:11PM (#17801137)

I'm not sure that's true. Every single post about climate change or global warming, for instance--no matter how tech-related the story may happen to be--gets flagged almost immediately. That's not being done by liberals.

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