flagged-hn

This is cool, but very out of date? Posts are only showing from a few years ago for me. Here's the related repo: https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn I've also wanted to start tracking the flagged posts on HN, or expose them in my HN Android app for me to read, but it seems that the [flagged] is not immediately visible from the Firebase API? The crawler above is scraping the raw site.

The study would be on flagging, which is typically done by independent HN users. HN has non-public mechanisms to detect some coordinated activity (e.g. upvoting submissions) across registered usernames. > If there were organized efforts to censor specific topics Note the "if" at the beginning of the sentence. It's not about transient topics, but long-term patterns. Broadly speaking, "censorship" is only one possible motive for coordinated activity, flagging or otherwise. > If memory serves, there are website(s) that track which submission get flagged. Thanks for the pointer, found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29144989 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29113079 & https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn.

Someone made a tool for that: https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn

Now added 'flagged comments' page. previously submitted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29113079 . (will not update this on a regular basis, if anyone wants to use it: https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn)

Thanks for your responses. So you have to check the HTML (substring search) to see if a story is flagged? Edit: Answered my own question: yes: https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn/blob/master/crawl...

Here is the crawler project: https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn/ . It crawls HN and creates a database record for each submission. The page is generated by formatting the result of the sql query. A bit boring, all written in python3. (I don't have the nerve to run the crawler and page generator on a daily basis; the page has instructions on how to install and run the script)