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i've noticed this article just disappeared from the front page (flagged to death i presume). I totally disagree with the person who wrote the article, but I th
by hayksaakian 11y ago
i've noticed this article just disappeared from the front page (flagged to death i presume).
I totally disagree with the person who wrote the article, but I think it's sad that the "flag" button is now a "i'm offended" or "i disagree" button.
the comments in this discussion provide interesting perspectives that are now hidden to the general readership.
I think this is why 4chan still has a massive user base -- less opinionated moderation.
- argonaut 11y agoHacker News needs more opinionated moderation, not less, if it's going to retain the quality of discussion. 4chan is not exactly a shining example of quality discourse.
- lifthrasiir 11y agoIt has been flagged once (when it was the second link in the front page), then de-flagged somehow. Not sure if there is a penalty associated to that.
- noobie 11y agoFlagged stories have a [flagged] tag. This is plain blatant censorship.
- argonaut 11y agoNo, only flagged stories that reach a certain threshold [number? quality?] of flags get a [flagged] tag.
- dang 11y agoThat's false. [flagged] is displayed when a story is flagged by enough users to be killed (closed to new comments). This story did receive that many flags, but we don't kill threads when they have a lot of comments, so in this case the flags demoted the article but didn't kill it. No moderator touched it or AFAIK even saw it until now. Edit: hmm this one got killed after I posted the above, which looks like a bug in the software. We've unkilled it now.