Ask HN: Why is Hacker News flagging any negative conversations about vaccine?

Re:Ask HN: Why is Hacker News flagging any negative conversa... by mrakve on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:47PM (#29764900)

How does flagging work on HN? Mods or user initiated?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Hacker News flagging any negative conversa... by mtmail on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:52PM (#29764939)

User initiated though moderators can also do it. Your account has negative karma and you don't see the 'flag' and 'vouch' links yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Hacker News flagging any negative conversa... by AnimalMuppet on Saturday January 01, 2022 @11:07PM (#29765723)

I believe that flag (and, I presume, vouch) takes more karma than "not negative", though I don't recall what the threshold is.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Hacker News flagging any negative conversa... by gs17 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @11:24PM (#29765811)

According to https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi... it's 31.

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