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I notice it that some Apple fanboys seem to be the most sensitive and maybe suffer from some persecution complex... no wonder they take any measure necessary to

I notice it that some Apple fanboys seem to be the most sensitive and maybe suffer from some persecution complex... no wonder they take any measure necessary to bury content. Anyway, I didn't think article posts could be flagged and deleted here. I thought voting would take care of that. If this happens on a regular basis I might consider stopping visiting this site. Edit: Inspite of people trying to teach me a lesson by downvoting me, let me point out the guideline from HN: >If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. Some people using it as a 'downvote' link to bury content that they don't like (digg style) are just plain abusing the system just because they cannot take criticism against their favorite company.

bradleyland 16y ago
Flagging is a means of voting. Once you've reached a specific karma threshold, a 'flag' link appears next to articles and posts. Too many flags and something gets removed.
- raganwald 16y ago
  Flagging is NOT a means of downvoting. If there was a downvote, downvote would mean "On topic for HN, but I don't want to read it." Flag would mean, "Off topic for HN whether I want to read it or not." For example, I enjoy free-riding, but I would flag most articles about it. Except maybe an article about how the North Shore movement got started by people building secret trails and using ladder bridges and other contrivances to sculpt trails over unrideable terrain... That's hacking of a sort.
epochwolf 16y ago
We can't down vote articles so there is a flag link. The only way to get an article that shouldn't be on the front page off is to flag it and hope it gets enough flags to kill it or a moderator comes along and kills it.
ErrantX 16y ago
If something makes it over 10 votes no amount of flagging will kill it. Before that it is open season. You're also being unfair about "Apple Fanboys" - I'm somewhere between fanboy and apathetic (i.e. it doesn't worry me) and even I am tired of Hank Williams rants. Ultimately majority rule wins; if some of us flag things to death then so be it. It only happens on particularly bad articles such as that one.

bradleyland 16y ago

Flagging is a means of voting. Once you've reached a specific karma threshold, a 'flag' link appears next to articles and posts. Too many flags and something gets removed.

raganwald 16y ago
Flagging is NOT a means of downvoting. If there was a downvote, downvote would mean "On topic for HN, but I don't want to read it." Flag would mean, "Off topic for HN whether I want to read it or not." For example, I enjoy free-riding, but I would flag most articles about it. Except maybe an article about how the North Shore movement got started by people building secret trails and using ladder bridges and other contrivances to sculpt trails over unrideable terrain... That's hacking of a sort.

epochwolf 16y ago

We can't down vote articles so there is a flag link. The only way to get an article that shouldn't be on the front page off is to flag it and hope it gets enough flags to kill it or a moderator comes along and kills it.

ErrantX 16y ago

If something makes it over 10 votes no amount of flagging will kill it. Before that it is open season. You're also being unfair about "Apple Fanboys" - I'm somewhere between fanboy and apathetic (i.e. it doesn't worry me) and even I am tired of Hank Williams rants. Ultimately majority rule wins; if some of us flag things to death then so be it. It only happens on particularly bad articles such as that one.