Not familiar with how flagging works. Why would it be flagged?

tough · 2025-04-25T17:49:55 1745603395

when topics are too political usually flame wars abound and moderators can choose to flag/derank a submission to avoid the comments section going wild or just close comments altogether in extreme cases

all i can find on doing research is if a thread has more comments than upvotes that might be what flags it as flamewar candidate (but seems mostly is manually reviewed by moderators, not fully-automated) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39790881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231821

ks2048 · 2025-04-25T17:55:34 1745603734

Is there a simple rule about how many "flags" vs "upvotes" lead to an article not appearing on the front page?

junek · 2025-04-25T17:49:24 1745603364

[flagged]

teddyh · 2025-04-25T17:51:18 1745603478

Or, just maybe, HN is full of people who don’t come to HN to read about nazis.

jillyboel · 2025-04-25T17:55:31 1745603731

[flagged]

karmakurtisaani · 2025-04-26T15:51:23 1745682683

You get down votes, but this is exactly it.

jillyboel · 2025-04-26T18:54:16 1745693656

Yeah, it's telling how this comment went from +2 to -2 to flagged to revived