My problem is that NSA stories (of what I've seen) is that any NSA story will get voted up ad nauseam, and so people just try to post as many as possible, regardless of quality. Again, this is just from what I've personally seen, it may be different on a case-per-case basis, and I've definitely noticed the amount of this has decreased since the initial explosion of NSA topics after the initial Snowden leak.

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I also want to just express that this poll is kind of biased, because it seems to be implying that every NSA article that doesn't make it to the front page must have been flagged. While I don't like the sheer quantity of NSA articles, this doesn't mean I want to flag all of them.

I'd prefer a system in which articles were ranked naturally without flags, but less low-quality NSA articles were posted in general.