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OP uses this story as an example of having "moderator fingerprints on them" i.e moderators censoring posts, which is not true. What happened was the opposite :
by ploggingdev 10y ago
OP uses this story as an example of having "moderator fingerprints on them" i.e moderators censoring posts, which is not true. What happened was the opposite : the moderator uncensored a post flagged by the community.
- azrazalea 10y agoWell, the author tried to account for that by saying that normal flagged posts don't go down near as fast. If what is being said in other threads is true, high karma accounts clicking flag could push a post off the front page without showing the "flagged" tag, then that could be an explanation instead. Which would then mean that maybe these high karma users have too much power.
- foob 10y agoThat's an interesting point. I hadn't even considered the possibility that a single user would have the power to drop a story by hundreds of positions. If that's the case then those users do have a lot of power.
- jacquesm 10y ago> Which would then mean that maybe these high karma users have too much power. And on top of that are allowed to use HN as a platform to ask other users to jump to their aid in flagging stories they don't like.
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- xiphmont 10y agoEspecially when it's a bit too easy to flag an article by mistake due to progressive rendering causing a misclick, or just being careless. I know I've done it, noticed, and then gone back to unflag. I wonder how often I've clicked off by a few pixels and didn't notice.