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I flagged that top level affirmative action comment, and I hope more people do. Contentless flamewars about unrelated culture war policies are boring, and are a negative contribution to the discussion.

>>lostdo+(OP)
From the guidelines

  Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

>>versio+v
I agree with the guidelines, but they aren't working anymore. I can predict the tenor and content of the comments on half of the HN front page these days just from the title and domain, which means flagging isn't cutting it.

>>throwa+k1
There is also a "hide" button. I assure you that right now there are countless internet fora where countless people are having discussions that for some subset any of us would find horrible. Better just to not engage with what you don't like.

>>lostdo+(OP)
> unrelated culture war policies

It seems pretty relevant to me. The comment was also positive, applauding this policy for actually trying to identify improvishment.

I don't see how you could describe this point as "culture war", "negative", or "flamewar". I suspect you just don't agree.

What's unfortunate about HN is that when enough people disagree, those ideas go away and others aren't aware they are even being expressed. The intent of these moderation features is to remove low quality content, but it's almost always a filter for ideology and sociability.

I can't count the number of times I have been reading an interesting comment or submission, and suddenly its flagged and completely invisible.