US post office carriers "forced to work fewer hours," leaving "buckets of mail"

Re:US post office carriers "forced to work fewer hours," lea... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:00PM (#24189133)

HN has an off-topic policy, but it's enforced primarily by user flagging. In recent months, there's been a large influx of people who feel political activism is so important that it needs to happen everywhere, so posts tend to get upvoted faster than they can be flagged.

You'll note that this article now has a [flagged] tag next to it, which means enough users flagged it that it's removed from the feed.

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Re:US post office carriers "forced to work fewer hours," lea... by Jtsummers on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:11PM (#24189247)

It's probably not new users, but the current time period. This is a US election year, which (for US users in particular) brings many political topics to the fore. Some posts are more appropriate here than others, but political content in general will get more attention as a result.

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Re:US post office carriers "forced to work fewer hours," lea... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:28PM (#24189452)

True. I don't remember it being so bad in 2016 - but then again I spent much less time reading HN then.

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Re:US post office carriers "forced to work fewer hours," lea... by Jtsummers on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:41PM (#24189634)

I remember a lot of posts (and a lot of them being flagged) but I have no solid numbers to base this on. But I also let myself get caught up in the politics in general and probably noticed them for that reason as well (my brain was primed to notice them).

I need to start taking year long retreats every four years.

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