Anything critical related to the CEO of Crowdstrike gets flagged immediately.<p>Flagged posts are not searchable anymore, but browsing the past "new hn" posts, here are some results, mine included:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41017925<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41017866<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41017863<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41017491<p>None of these deserve a flag according to HN guidelines, no clickbait, flameware stuff. What's going on?<p>@dang?<p>My post wasn't even critical, still it was flagged within 15 minutes. It was just a list of facts from independent.co.uk.
There was a thread for reporting on the incident, and another for the official follow-up. There's not much discussion to be had; most of these are witch-hunt posts.<p>He's certainly no perfect angel, but character assassination on HN will get flagged unless it's actually newsworthy.