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And of course this gets flagged. HN is very strange sometimes, sometimes even worse than the loathed reddit mods (or maybe it's just the overly-american audiance here). Maybe if this gets posted a Github gist with the changes alone it won't get removed?

>>haunte+(OP)
I don't know the motivations of the specific people who flagged it, and some could have wanted to shut down a story they didn't support.

But generally these kind of threads don't lead to new or interesting discussion on HN so they get shut down. It's not about the story being unimportant, it's just that it (and the discussion it leads to, on both sides) doesn't fit with what the site wants to achieve. I don't think there's any political motive for these stories getting buried (independent of what might motivate an individual flagger)

>>haunte+(OP)
Maybe if someone fed Dahl to ChatGPT . . .

>>haunte+(OP)
Suppression of opinion was the realm of dictatorship et al

Now it is the realm of HN

That's not to say I have a better way forward, but I don't think it is good to shutdown difficult conversations to appease the most offended -- that is arguably the group that should have least sway over discussion

But by empowering 'flaggers' and 'downvoters' we give them the most control...

>>tsegra+O5
To be clear: by most offended I mean most easily offended, and hence presumably least able to hold sensible and open conversation

>>versio+z3
Neither do threads about cryptocurrency, neither do threads about attempts to ban cryptography, neither do threads, for the most part, about so-called AI research.

Most news and news sites in general are not about only things that are practically very new, and most articles around even new technologies are reiterating the same information.

HN isn't robot9000. Not everything needs to be wholely original, nor is that HNs purpose - there's pretty clear guidelines around reposting the same article in the guidelines, so why would multiple takes on the same event not be worthy of discussion, to the point of flagging?

>>Gauntl+jg
Those threads often get flagged too, especially the cryptocurrency ones

I think the OP is clearly worth overriding the flags for, despite the culture war aspect which does lead to crap threads, no doubt about it—though the comments here are mostly good so far, and one even talks about Rider Haggard.

>>haunte+(OP)
Flags on HN are mostly from users, not mods. Sometimes we override user flags. We did that here. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850588.