Are you sure this isn't the result of HK's "overheated discussion detector?[0]"<p>Threads mentioning China often seem to bring out a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment, which results in arguments, which results in heavy voting, which may trigger the flamewar detector.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089</a>
You can easily answer this for yourself instead of posting off-topic metaflamebait (which please don't):<p><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?query=china%20points%3E10&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?query=china%20points%3E10&sort=byDat...</a>
The guidelines essentially say that anything deeply interesting is on-topic, but there are inevitably people who will jump up and say that if it isn't Tech or science, then it doesn't really belong here.<p>Articles are flagged by users, not moderators.<p>(I'm not a moderator here, just a long time member who likes talking about social stuff.)
Most recently this was flagged, but not sure why..
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17633498" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17633498</a>