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>>When we see accounts doing that, we usually take away their flagging rights.

I have observed that any post that is negative about Musk gets flagged. Almost 100% of the time. In that regard, it has certainly occurred to me that someone with Musk's wealth would find it trivial to hire millions of people to monitor and attempt to influence his image on social media - and imo it would be quite surprising if he didn't have massive numbers of people whose full time job was to do precisely that.

In that regard, I find it obnoxious someone of his wealth should be entitled to such personal privileges on HN. I don't mean to imply HN is actively supporting that - just that I believe HN should be taking affirmative steps to prevent the removal of 100% of things that would annoy Musk from ever reaching the front page.

>>keerna+(OP)
Any post that is positive about his muskness gets flagged as well, and even harder IIRC.

I hear you about privileges and I don't disagree, but we're mostly just trying to optimize for interesting discussions.

>>dang+cp
>but we're mostly just trying to optimize for interesting discussions

Thanks for taking the time to respond - and I certainly agree with the above. It's what makes HN pretty unique.