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dang, five dollar bet this gets to 100 points. :) This in response to an earlier exchange about how race and gender related posts get many votes in the beginni

dang, five dollar bet this gets to 100 points. :) This in response to an earlier exchange about how race and gender related posts get many votes in the beginning and are then flagged to death, but ones about class always make it to the top. Is there a way to see how many times an article has been flagged? I would like to gather data for my assertions.

gyardley 11y ago
I too would enjoy seeing this. I submitted an race-and-gender-related article around a month ago that fell off the front page quickly enough to make me cock an eyebrow and wonder if the flagging system isn't giving a small percentage of users an inappropriate veto over certain topics of discussion. I know I've seen a tool out there that tracks the ranking of HN articles over time. Perhaps the slope of the descent would serve as a good proxy for flagging.
- wallflower 11y ago
  Quickly looking at the article you submitted, it was the 'Not a Black Chair' that floated into the stream about a month ago. I did not flag it, and I think others may have flagged it. The comment to point ratio also contributes to front-page decay to avoid flamewars. This isn't the target audience for comfortable or uncomfortable discussions about race/gender/privilege. In my opinion, the author of that article exhibited behavior that, if you take away race and gender from the equation, would be questionable, at best, if you were an individual working at a company (the relationship with a coworker and others). Those facts clouded what the author was saying about race and gender. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287491
ap22213 11y ago
While I can relate to you in regard to the decreasing number of tech relevant articles (I wish there were more of them), I actually enjoy reading articles about class and the comments that follow.
- kelukelugames 11y ago
  I post some of the class articles. They are much more acceptable than gender and race for discussion by a primarily white and male crowd.

gyardley 11y ago

I too would enjoy seeing this. I submitted an race-and-gender-related article around a month ago that fell off the front page quickly enough to make me cock an eyebrow and wonder if the flagging system isn't giving a small percentage of users an inappropriate veto over certain topics of discussion. I know I've seen a tool out there that tracks the ranking of HN articles over time. Perhaps the slope of the descent would serve as a good proxy for flagging.

wallflower 11y ago
Quickly looking at the article you submitted, it was the 'Not a Black Chair' that floated into the stream about a month ago. I did not flag it, and I think others may have flagged it. The comment to point ratio also contributes to front-page decay to avoid flamewars. This isn't the target audience for comfortable or uncomfortable discussions about race/gender/privilege. In my opinion, the author of that article exhibited behavior that, if you take away race and gender from the equation, would be questionable, at best, if you were an individual working at a company (the relationship with a coworker and others). Those facts clouded what the author was saying about race and gender. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287491

ap22213 11y ago

While I can relate to you in regard to the decreasing number of tech relevant articles (I wish there were more of them), I actually enjoy reading articles about class and the comments that follow.

kelukelugames 11y ago
I post some of the class articles. They are much more acceptable than gender and race for discussion by a primarily white and male crowd.