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Interesting. Are you suggesting a voting ring or something? Is flagging usually used as a way to let the moderators know that something fishy might be going on?
by stanleydrew 16y ago
Interesting. Are you suggesting a voting ring or something? Is flagging usually used as a way to let the moderators know that something fishy might be going on?
- zeedotme 16y agonothing gets points that fast on here so yeah definite something fishy going on and yeah that's what flagging is for
- zeedotme 16y agofrustrating too because it makes us The Next Web look like we're manipulating things when we're absolutely not.
- natrius 16y agoNo, that is not the way flagging should be used. My understanding is that flagging leads to automatic killing of stories. If people were to flag the story based on this insignificant evidence, it would get killed even if there isn't anything malicious going on. Voting rings shouldn't lead to a story getting killed anyway. It's technologically trivial to negate the effects of simple voting rings (e.g. a voting ring that would lead to five votes in a minute), so if it's something that is frowned upon, that should be taken into consideration when ranking stories. Can we talk about the actual story now?