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What is the justification for this article being flagged?
by aburan28 10y ago
What is the justification for this article being flagged?
- grzm 10y agoYou've been on the site for years, and quite a few of your recent comments have been about stories getting flagged. In your experience, why do you think other users might have flagged this one?
- caminante 10y agoDespite not being an egregious case, I think the flagging's fair. As others pointed out [0], the article's premise is silly and just an annual refresh of Oxfam's dubious statistic. Thus, WRT HN's submission guidelines, the article's off-topic and not "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13407849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13407849
- maxerickson 10y ago'click'. There's apparently some level of egregious behavior that will result in not being able to flag things anymore but beyond that people will have lots of motivations for flagging things. In this case a likely explanation is the terrible click bait headline.