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This happens with every single story that touches on this subject. Over the course of the summer it's happened time after time - the flag brigade gets almost a
by douche 10y ago
This happens with every single story that touches on this subject. Over the course of the summer it's happened time after time - the flag brigade gets almost all of them.
After the flag-killed story today was reset, it still never showed up on the main page, despite hundreds of votes, although it did show up on /classic.
- dang 10y agoSure; nearly all those stories are off topic for HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I assume this one's different because of the Reddit connection.
- Mao_Zedang 10y agoWhen content moderation rules like these are infrequently enforced they cant be taken seriously.
- dang 10y agoIf this is 'infrequently' I'm not sure what we do all day! Moderation consistency is impossible, because we can't come close to reading everything here. We do our best.
- misja111 10y agoI noticed the same. For instance: not so long ago there was a story on HN that reported the fact that Google's autocomplete suggestions have a strange bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton, which doesn't seem reflect the popularity of the suggested sentences. It got flagged quickly and removed. Probably because the source was sputnik.com, a Russian news site. But the phenomenon that was reported was true, it was easy to verify by yourself. I don't see why these kind of posts should be flagged and removed. Maybe you don't agree with their content, but then why not have a discussion about them? In this case I would have been interested in hearing an explanation for those autocomplete suggestions.