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Not sure why we would turn off flagging, if it's doing its job keeping flame wars off of the front page.
by mcknz 10y ago
Not 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.