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You can absolutely eliminate it, you just don't want to because it would cost too much.

I suppose macro trends would also explain why black social issues always get flagged on HN as well.




Eliminate a Western audience looking at things from a Western perspective? That is an excessive idea of what moderators can do. We are janitors.


You can do something so that black social issues links do not get removed.


Plenty of such articles have been discussed here, and we've often turned off flags on the more substantive ones. It really depends on the specific article and how well it fits the mandate of this site. Not all social-issue articles do.




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