Dang, it's a serious problem when discussions like this result in any serious attempts to engage from one side getting flagged to death.

That's what happens here, and on any news involving the Gaza War, for quite some time. To someone who doesn't use [showdead] this creates an impression of partiality in this community which is not borne out by reality.

Which makes Hacker News appear complicit in supporting that point of view.

If you're going to keep overriding the flag mechanism and letting these posts hit the front page, you need to disable flagging of individual posts except by you or another moderator (if there is one?) after manual review. The status quo is unfair.

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