Are you implying it's not the same here? There are countless comments and posts that gets flagged almost instantly because it goes against the hivemind here. And no not because they are low quality or they miss the mark on some imaginary quality test.

I read HN through RSS and if you catch up say 1 or 2 days later you can see a lot of flagged or even straight up removed posts with a lot of comments and points too which means some people would actually find the content interesting or HN-worthy.