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So this gets unflagged, but it's still completely gone from the front page even though it has a very good upvotes / time ratio. I really dislike that about HN.
by 3131s 9y ago
So this gets unflagged, but it's still completely gone from the front page even though it has a very good upvotes / time ratio. I really dislike that about HN. This is clearly an important discussion.
- Steko 9y agoStill says [flagged] to me.
- krapp 9y agoHave you read this thread? There is no important discussion going on here, only lazy barbs about the US military and Republican party which, while true, are neither intellectually interesting nor particularly germane to the posted article. If there were something worth saving here, I'd agree that the downvoting and flagging were a problem, but in this case it's just garbage and it gets what it deserves.
- Steko 9y agoThere's separate flagging for comments and articles though, you seem to have those confused. Should we flag front page articles every time the first two comments are terrible?
- krapp 9y agoThe article seems close enough to being mainstream political news to be flag-worthy to me. I'd agree that an article shouldn't be flagged because of the comments alone, but either way it's going to vanish from the front page quickly considering how heavily HN weighs downvoting and flagging.
- cyphunk 9y agoSo anything mainstream gets flagged, even if it relates to people in the field of science? Srsly hn, flagging != patriotism
- krapp 9y agoAnything mainstream should get flagged unless it presents some "new and interesting phenomenon," or satisfies some intellectual curiosity. You could replace the robotics in this story with anything else and it wouldn't change it at all, so it's really just three brief paragraphs a subject which has already been covered. I can see why people would flag it. If you want the topic of America's visa policy as it relates to science to be discussed in depth, then someone can post a better article with substantive content. Most people are only going to read the title and vent their spleens anyway, so the bar has to be set higher for articles which touch on certain topics.
- DrScump 9y agoIts previous postings remain up. Perhaps this was just flagged as a dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673603
- cyphunk 9y agodon't use vanilla hn. use a proxy like hckrnews.com instead. they still show flagged posts