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I also had to vouch it back, there appears to be a concerted effort to flag this.
by pacaro 9y ago
I also had to vouch it back, there appears to be a concerted effort to flag this.
- gpm 9y agoI too just vouched it back (after seeing this comment so we didn't click vouch simultaneously). If you're flagging this story, perhaps you could leave a comment here about why? Edit: And while posting this comment it got reflagged/revouched again...
- dTal 9y agoI vouched it back after you. And now it's flagged again... Weirdly it's completely gone from the front page (and all subsequent pages). I assume that's not normal for flags? It was at #4 only a moment ago, and it was flagged then... edit: and now it's back, on page 2 this time. The invisible hand of moderation?
- Erwin 9y agoThis seems like a long-standing country-specific societal problem to me: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
- gpm 9y agoThat's a fair argument. I'd argue it's a new phenomenon in that this is the first time (I've seen anyways) people resigning themselves to simply giving advice on how to de-escelate the situation as a non-cop. But I can see how that seems like a stretch.
- mwambua 9y agoI hope it's only being flagged because it's not directly related to technology. Any other reason would make me quite sad.
- sctb 9y agoThe data don't suggest this. Users flagging the post might be weighing the likelihood of an informative, substantive discussion against a flame-fest. The latter isn't just distracting, it can cause actual harm, and flagging is a self-protective tool for the community. When moderators notice threads like these, we can turn the flags off (at least temporarily) to see how the thread shapes up. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748443 and marked it off-topic.