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Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs) by meibo on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:25PM (#26643188)
It's a shame, I feel like it's our duty to boost these things - it's the least we can do.

Maybe the HN team could manually do "flag locks" for certain articles that are being brigaded?

Reddit has a "controversial" indicator on posts and comments that can help users identify that this is happening(heavily downvoted, but also heavily upvoted and interacted with).

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Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs) by unityByFreedom on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:36AM (#26644158)
If there were a way to transparently share coordinated activity I'd be supportive. But, I've never seen the evidence shared and I trust the reason is because sharing such evidence would lead the actors to change their methods. The best we can do as users is discuss the possibility it may be occurring.
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Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs) by tammerk on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:49PM (#26643326)
This is way beyond being "controversial". First thing probably, HN team can investigate all China related posts and gather users who flagged these posts and take action accordingly.
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Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs) by wait_a_minute on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:13AM (#26643762)
What if some of those people are on the HN team?
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Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs) by dang on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:56PM (#26652281)
You may be at step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.
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Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs) by pas on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:26AM (#26645137)
Eventually HN would lose (some of) its appeal. And if it would bug enough people a new forum would see a huge influx of people.
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Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs) by tammerk on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:45AM (#26643915)
We'll see if they are going to prevent this.
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