And it's flagged. It is far to easy for organized fringe groups to control the narrative here by just killing anything they don't like.

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dang 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If users didn't flag opinion pieces on hot divisive topics, HN's front page would consist of nothing but opinion pieces about hot divisive topics. As that would be an entirely different site, user flags are vital to preserving HN for its intended mandate. As I put it years ago, we need those white blood cells.

If you want to call that an "organized fringe group trying to control the narrative", I suppose it's really just a different way of wording the same thing.´

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boplicity 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Please keep in mind that making something a divisive topic is a specific and intentional strategy for suppressing speech.

	▲	consumer451 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		By my count, a very effective strategy.

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UncleMeat 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When I look at /new and /active, where flagged topics are present, I definitely don't see them "consist of nothing but opinion pieces and hot divisive topics."

	▲	xphos 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't know this was a thing thank you so much

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us-merul 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I submitted this because I thought the article made insightful points about how an announcement like this can pave the way for downstream policy changes. I’m not trying to start a debate about the announcement itself.

	▲	xphos 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		there is nothing wrong with what you posted