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Thanks for the flexibility (for context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716662).
by pesenti 10y ago
Thanks for the flexibility (for context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716662).
- mcknz 10y agoNot sure why we would turn off flagging, if it's doing its job keeping flame wars off of the front page.
- minimaxir 10y agoHence the experimentation and additional caveat by sctb. Note that the flamewar detector may not have been turned off and is possibly punishing the submission otherwise.
- sctb 10y agoThe hypothesis is that the many flagged submissions and associated meta-discussion amount to more disruption than a single discussion thread which might otherwise have been judged as off-topic for HN.
- sctb 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716854 and marked it off-topic.