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		paraschopra on Nov 23, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Quit Hacker News Wow, just curious about the implementation. Do you use some sort of heuristics in determining political posts or excessively complaining posts?

pg on Nov 24, 2010 | [–]

The main one is number of flags. When anything gets over a certain number of flags, it shows up on a list that admins see. They decide either to kill it, mark it as political or whatever, or do nothing.

lwhi on Nov 23, 2010 | [–]

I'd imagine the heuristics mechanism was biologically evolved ... ;)

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