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Just change it to be less effective as it becomes more popular. There's no reason to have a 'flag' link once a story hits the main page, for example.
by david927 10y ago
Just change it to be less effective as it becomes more popular.
There's no reason to have a 'flag' link once a story hits the main page, for example.
- minimaxir 10y agoThen people would just submit clickbait titles such that their submission gets quick upvotes for flag immunity.
- david927 10y agoGood point -- but certainly you can agree that after a certain point threshold flagging is increasingly less valuable and should be more to simply let the mods know to take a look. Anything is preferable, at this point, to the methods used. Perfectly good articles are getting dropped and it comes across as censorship.
- throwaway743824 10y agoOr just monitor the stories that get flagged off the front page (~25 over several weeks according to the post) and take appropriate measures (e.g. restoring with relative time and penalize flaggers). Of course they first have to decide whether they want users who cares about the stories they submit and therefor think that non bad things getting flagged off the front page is a problem.