I submitted a post about Eric Schmidt working directly with the Clinton campaign and, in an email, stating, "Key is the development of a single record for a voter that aggregates all that is known about them."<p>The post was flagged and removed. Not sure why other than wikileaks discussion not being allowed....
I think there are a lot of HN users who are flagging political/US election-related topics in general, especially those that don't have a strong tech angle.<p>Just for clarification, as I understand it, "flagged" is a result of users marking it flagged. I'm not sure how a submission gets marked dead (for example, if it's moderator-only or can be marked dead if there are enough flags)<p>There's been a lot of discussion on other similarly politically-charged threads as well. For example:<p>- <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677</a><p>- <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215</a><p>- <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12839742" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12839742</a><p>Those are just the first couple occurrences I found. I don't intend them to be representative of any particular bias.
Maybe because you didn't provide any context? Cherry-picking one sentence from an email doesn't seem like a good faith attempt to discuss the issues.<p>(The same applies for Trump quotes! We should give him the benefit of doubt and make a reasonable attempt to understand the proper context of his bizarre but extremely quotable statements... But in his case, it's often difficult or meaningless to determine context because he rambles off the cuff all the time -- often it seems like many of the quotes just surface from his subconscious, and there's nothing else in the surrounding thought stream that could explain it.)
Hacker News is, as clearly stated in the FAQ, "for things of interest to hackers". Given how widely discredited WikiLeaks is -- pretty much every neutral observer acknowledges they're now little more than a messenger for Russian intelligence operatives -- I can't see much value in discussing this garbage.<p>There are plenty of places for on the internet where you can find Donald Trump circle jerks where you can discuss this with the plethora of conspiracy theorists, white nationalists and Trump supporters this stuff tends to attract. Hacker News is not one of them.
Sure looks like it isn't, at least not when the story at hand is...inconvenient for certain parties.<p>Quickly killed threads include <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840068" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840068</a> and <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840251" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840251</a>
Yeah, sorry about that. Conspiracy headquarters was busy with the daily mass media realignment groupthink and I couldn't get you the usual 1055 ("useful appearance of opposition") exemption.