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Surprised this is not on the front page. HN, did it get flagged?

• minimaxir 10y ago
  [edited]
  • Kinnard 10y ago
    What makes you say that?
• vox_mollis 10y ago
  Not to get too conspiratorial, but Urbit's founder is not a very popular figure around here. Mass autoflagging of * urbit * would not be surprising.
  • Kinnard 10y ago
    Interesting, which one? why is that?
    • arcadeparade 10y ago
      Moldbug.
• networked 10y ago
  "Please don't tweet [the sale] or post publicly until 9am PDT on the 29th. But feel free to share privately with friends." Perhaps dang et al. are helping the founders maintain this?
  • daxorid 10y ago
    Gah! I didn't even notice that. Sincere apologies to any Urbit staff for posting this. Sorry.
    • networked 10y ago
      If the title hasn't been edited by the HN crew you can still delete the story.
      • daxorid 10y ago
        No delete link, unfortunately.
        • networked 10y ago
          You can email hn@ycombinator.com, then. Speaking from my experience, dang does a great job responding to user email. Edit: It looks like the story has been [flagged].
          • dang 10y ago
            Yes, users flagged it. Normally that would also kill the story (i.e. close it to new comments and hide it from users who don't have 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile), but once there are enough comments, the software presumes there's an ongoing discussion and spares it.
            • daxorid 10y ago
              Thanka dang. I'm curious if the HN software has flagging ring detection in the same way it has voting ring detection.
              • Kinnard 10y ago
                That's a great idea. But I imagine it'd be difficult to differentiate between trash getting flagged rapidly by a lot of people and a flagging ring.