Ask HN: Aren't we flagging too many submissions?

9 pointsposted a year ago
by rbanffy

Item id: 43050833

11 Comments

ChrisArchitect

a year ago

Or you could just upvote one of the 4-5 other posts on it already.

duxup

a year ago

Those will end up flagged eventually too. A lot of the "dupe" links lead to a flagged thread.

Flagging on HN now appears to be "I don't like this news". Granted on every site that eventually is that.

ChrisArchitect

a year ago

Those other ones, doge related etc, are a different issue. This Blue Origin one is .. just news. And there's a number of posts. Stuff moves fast around here.

duxup

a year ago

Valid point. I concede my point.

gjvc

a year ago

I thought you were just an annoying bot

pmdulaney

a year ago

I personally don't see the benefit of either down voting or flagging. Flagging in particular, more often than not, seems to denote: "This post is not sufficiently ingratiating to my political convictions".

duxup

a year ago

Yeah it SEEMS like a minority of flags can over power votes and comments. Meaning the "I don't want people to talk about that" type "vote" is over represented. That's not something that should be that strong.

IMO flags should be reserved for spam, bad data, fundamentally untruthful content, but that's clearly not how they're being used.

silexia

a year ago

Huge numbers of federal employee bureaucrats afraid for their jobs are now spamming HN (and every other site) with desperate attempts to paint Elon Musk and his efforts to shrink the federal government in a negative light.

ImPostingOnHN

a year ago

I doubt it

most people already find it difficult to view a literal seig-heiling nazi in anything other than a negative light, even if he made the trains run on time or whatever

JKCalhoun

a year ago

Now there's a news article, if true!

gjvc

a year ago

not enough