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> are somehow endorsing the claim

You are endorsing the claim when you override the ranking system and allow opposing views to be flagged and thus never appear for balance.

>>threes+(OP)
Not so—nor the claims that anthropology is in ruins, that this is the year of the RSS reader, or anything about covid and smoking. At this point I'm starting to wonder what's hard to understand about this.

Re flagging: that's supposed to be for comments that break the site guidelines. If you (or anyone) see a comment that breaks the site guidelines and isn't flagged, or a comment that is flagged and doesn't break the site guidelines, remember that we don't come close to seeing everything, and that you can always let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. It's best to only do that in egregious cases though. For non-egregious cases, it's best to remember that consistency in moderation is impossible and not sweat the small stuff.