You should email them if you're convinced it's flagged and you have an issue with it.
You don't see a problem with a section of posters with good karma flagging posts like this?
Edit: I do think a better parallel is Digg's bury brigades.
But honestly, I don't take Hacker News seriously enough for it to bother me. I use it to build connections in the community, keep up to date on tech and news matters, and post things from time to time.
It's not as though I need my posts to hit the front page. I post intellectual curiosities and some of my more interesting blog posts around the internet, but I couldn't care less if a small but powerful "1%" holds voting power on Hacker News.
How does one email them?
>draw parallels with any part of Germany less reputable history
Erm, it's about a jury system that failed, not really about German history.
And I said the catch-all about German history because it's still one facet of Germany. It was just a more eloquent way of saying it.
http://i.imgur.com/ao8qgdG.png
This is ridiculous, and proves that HN is filled with closed minded fanboys and hater zealots instead of technology lovers who otherwise have good karma.
Can anyone who flagged this post tell us why they did so?
If this is not moderator abuse, I don't know what is.
Reminds me of the Germany jury system that had to be abolished: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury#Germany
>Trial by jury was introduced in most German states after the revolutionary events of 1848; however, it remained controversial and early in the 20th century there were moves to abolish it.[34] The Emminger Reform of January 4, 1924, during an Article 48 state of emergency, abolished the jury system and replaced it with a mixed system including bench trials and lay judges. In 1925 the Social Democrats called for the reinstitution of the jury, and a special meeting of the German Bar demanded revocation of the decrees, but "on the whole the abolition of the jury caused little commotion".[35] Their verdicts were widely perceived as unjust and inconsistent.