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Users who accumulate sufficient karma gain the ability to "flag" a post. When a sufficient number of different users with "flag" power click "flag" on a post, then it becomes [flagged].<p>More description here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173809" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173809</a>
"... what is the law around here exactly?"<p>They have guidelines posted. But in reality, as with real laws, there are things that are prosecuted that shouldn't be, and things that aren't prosecuted that should be.<p>For example, I have seen many insulting postings that don't get flagged, while many off-topic political posts go completely unchecked, and are largely group-think.
So anyone can flag stuff, just cause they don't like something.... So how can you ask questions and ask for advise with out upsetting someone and getting flagged
I get it so if it looks like advertising or spam it gets flagged ok ok so I need to word posts better and maybe ask somehow for comments on a url but not link out to it? Or how
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