Why was the kushner phone hack article flagged on HN?

5•JMiao•2h ago

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pestatije•1h ago

it wasn't

defrost•1h ago

If you're going to ask such things, at least link to WTF you're talking about:

[flagged] Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions (vanityfair.com)

557 points | 8 days ago | 241 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201259

and the easy answer is because a small number of users like yourself chose to click on [flag] - eight days ago.

JMiao•1h ago

oh i left that out so people would start commenting. thanks.

but why did they flag it?

defrost•1h ago

> but why did they flag it?

I can guess because it's mostly political, but you really should ask yourself why you think I would know their reasons.

You have a 2007 account FFS - why are you asking strangers why other strangers do things after 20 years on HN ?

JMiao•1h ago

well, not necessarily you, but you did attempt to explain why yet left out the meat of my question

defrost•58m ago

The meat of your question goes to TP/IP (telepathy over the internet) and the supposed wisdom of the crowd.

JMiao•25m ago

damn, telepathy already?

thomassmith65•22m ago

When someone posts "why was this flagged" or "why did this disappear so quickly from the front page" it makes me think of De Niro driving alone in the final scene of Taxi Driver.

Not to pick on this post in particular. The gold medal for such comments was a John Gruber blogpost accusing HN of blackballing him. As a runner up, there are the requisite accusatory comments on every flagged Israel post.

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