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Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by jessaustin on Sunday June 07, 2015 @11:48AM (#9675078)
Yeah I posted this because I felt HN people are smart enough to question and discuss this decision without being told to do so by some goofy conservative blog. (N.B.: I didn't and would never flag that other submission, because goofy conservatives don't bother me and the actual topic was interesting, but I understand that tastes differ so I'm not surprised that others flagged it.)
Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by dang on Sunday June 07, 2015 @06:06PM (#9676489)
The earlier post was flagkilled by users. We unkilled it because there was an ongoing discussion, but did not turn off the flags. That's what we do in nearly all such cases.

The current post was penalized by the flamewar detector, but we've canceled the penalty because the community clearly wants to talk about this, and what you posted is as close to a canonical source as we're likely to get.

Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by MichaelGG on Sunday June 07, 2015 @08:22PM (#9676836)
Is it acceptable to flag such things? I only flag such articles because the discussion quality tends to be really low. There's little insight in the comments. While they may be important topics, and I'm sure some folks have interesting ideas, the results don't seem very useful.
Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by dang on Sunday June 07, 2015 @09:01PM (#9676934)
Yes, that's an acceptable reason to flag such things, and many HN users do.