Can HN admins show what % of all flagged posts lately are China related?

Question

I see since a few months ago that any discussion about China gets flagged down aggressively, both posts and comments. I am interested in what percent of the total flagged posts and comments are related to China, and how it compares to other topics that are flagged. In my experience china related flagged p/c far outnumber other topics but lets check the actual data

yorwba · Accepted Answer

[flagged] is a visible indicator, so you can just do that analysis yourself. Either use the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API or, if that doesn't include the flag status, scrape it from the website. Then classify whatever number of flagged stories you end up collecting based on their topic.

tekkk · Answer

I somewhat understand having to policy keenly discussions that tend to go off-track such as China and its delicate politics and history. Yet it's sad that in order to do that, all comments that veer a little bit to the uncomfortable territory get shot down as flame-wary or unrelated. If people have bold but thought-out opinions is strict moderation going to somehow change them? There should be then more dialogue, not more flagging and total rejection of ideas. Otherwise it only creates more friction and a bigger rift between the far-ends of opinions.
Then again, I don't really get emotionally vested in a lot of things so I don't really get fired up either way about China and its policies. I just enjoy observing and discussing even the most obscene subjects to try to understand the other party.
But yes I'd say a majority of the flaggings have a good reason behind it. For some of the comments that get also flagged as collateral damage it would be nicer to have a dialogical method of educating the person instead of punishing them. Most people are genuinely not trying to troll and have no malicious intent.

vulcan01 · Answer

Just watch as this one also gets flagged aggressively...