A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
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A GitHub repository lists undocumented features and behaviors of Hacker News, sparking discussion among users about the platform's functionality and their experiences.
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Doesn't matter if some political sides generate a lot more flaggable posts - still have to flag equal numbers.
> Yes, we turned off the flags from your account at some point. Most probably this is because they seemed politically motivated. Of course we can't know this for sure, but when accounts seem largely to be flagging for political reasons, we tend to make the flags not count. We do this, btw, regardless of the political position they seem to be coming from.
This doesn't apply to certain special posts, such as "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?"
Comments are always editable there.
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