Posted by nomilk 9/7/2025
You can't just massacre a village because some villagers saw you.
The animals who did this were not following the rules of war. The animals who covered it up, and did not prosecute them deserve to hang with them, too.
Nothing to see here but a bunch of psychopaths killing innocent people as they screw up their own mission
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143759
[flagged] US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission (reuters.com)
68 points by hnlurker22 1 day ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 28 commentsA non-HN example: often when two people I have huge respect for as intellectuals go at it in debate over something, I can often infer that the topic is of some importance (I might not have ever heard of the topic before), and when smart people differ greatly in their views, at the very least, it's an 'interesting' topic, perhaps warranting further inquisition.
To answer your question, imagine HN's frontpage saturated by stories that you would consider entirely offtopic and sensational. To a first approximation, that's what HN would be for everyone if it weren't for user flags.
Of course the system is imperfect and overcorrects. But the presence of the current post on the frontpage already shows that sometimes—often, in fact—the overcorrection gets adjusted.
In some forums, tactics like flaming, disinformation, off-topic noise like jokes, upvoting diversions, etc. can also suppress information/discussion.
The lengths some people willing to go just not to use the metric system