How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
This article got a lot of user flags. That&#x27;s bad—it&#x27;s obviously a substantive article, squarely on topic for HN and not sensational, ideological, or predictable. Even a quick skim is enough to see that it doesn&#x27;t break down along any of the obvious faultlines for this general topic. That not only means it shouldn&#x27;t have been flagged, it makes it HN gold. If you&#x27;ve been wielding the flag club that indiscriminately...please stop! Accounts that do that lose their flagging rights.<p>It&#x27;s not legit to flag an article just because you don&#x27;t like the general category. There must also be something about the <i>specific article itself</i> that&#x27;s demonstrably bad for HN (for example, maybe the article doesn&#x27;t contain substantial new information, is gratuitously baity, or is mostly fuel for internet drama). None of that is the case here—quite the opposite. This is just the sort of article we should welcome, so we can have substantive discussions about relevant issues instead of hurling the same old nasty platitudes at each other yet again. (Can a platitude be nasty? or do I need a different word?)<p>A thousand thank-yous to the user who took the time to email about this while the thread was still fresh; I wasn&#x27;t focused on the HN front page just then, but I got the heads-up. If you ever want to make a big difference to HN quality, emailing hn@ycombinator.com when you notice solid, substantive content not getting the attention it deserves (whether because of flags or for any other reason) is one of the highest-leverage contributions you can make!