You know perfectly well that the original top comment was expressive and hyperbolic in nature, stop trying to analyze it as if it were a dry quantitative claim. The point, which is extremely obvious, is that many posts are being systematically flagged for reasons of favoritism.

They're clearly HN relevant, given that they relate to a tech titan effecting drastic changes in government structure, with significant security and other, by technical rather than legal means. Systematic flagging of posts about the activites of the Biden administration would have been equally questionable.

It's not violating HN's "intellectual curiosity" rule as many people are genuinely curious about this.

> Mass flagging doesn't change this.

It literally does. The majority of posters won’t ever see flagged posts.