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dangyesterday at 6:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Attentive readers will note how often the "this will be censored" comments appear in threads that spend many hours on HN's frontpage.


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lbritoyesterday at 6:42 PM

I get the irony, but its a bit meaningless since we can't compare the quantity of these (yet) uncensored posts with those that have been taken down, and thus aren't visible.

More importantly, other commentors here have already admitted to flagging this entry. The way flagging exists now rewards one-sideism and partisan behaviour - all it takes is a relatively small group of discontented people to take down a story that is otherwise interesting to the vast majority of posters. A counter-flag option would balance things.

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