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Thank you, this was an interesting read. On the tangent of arbitrary and unneeded flagging, there seems to be quite a great deal of it lately... it's not impro
by shawnee_ 9y ago
Thank you, this was an interesting read.
On the tangent of arbitrary and unneeded flagging, there seems to be quite a great deal of it lately... it's not improving the site.
After I got off work, I tried to find a story that I'd noticed earlier and wanted to comment on, but it was completely gone from not just the front page but everywhere. A completely benign, tech-related story. Makes no sense:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14745430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14745430
- sctb 9y agoWe detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748443 and marked it off-topic.
- DrScump 9y agoGiven that that same submitter submitted at least six copies of essentially the same press release within minutes of each other, I'm not surprised if several received many flags for duplication. Click "Past" on that link to see what I mean.
- shawnee_ 9y agoOkay... but I imagine dupes happen a lot when companies make an announcement. Doesn't mean we should bury all instances of a story. The one I noticed had 19 votes at the time I read it, and this was the one I'd planned to comment on. Isn't there a "merge" feature or something similar you can do to prevent squelching of a topic entirely? Let the site readers be the collective mechanism that votes or ignores something.