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Well. There is also quite a movement (one i subscribe to actually) to use the comment downvote feature not for disagreement (which should be a comment) but to "
by ErrantX 16y ago
Well. There is also quite a movement (one i subscribe to actually) to use the comment downvote feature not for disagreement (which should be a comment) but to "punish" comments not in the spirit of the community.
In that context flag would be synonymous with downvote in some respects.
I think the overriding theory is that on HN neither downvotes nor flags should be used to signal disagreement but to signal a bad/poor comment/article.
(I make not comment on whether that actually works out or not :))
- Scriptor 16y agoNot just a bad/poor comment/article. You can have a horrifically written article on Erlang and it would still be on Hacker News, therefore not deserving of flagging. What's supposed to happen is that nobody upvotes it and it stays in obscurity. On the other hand, even a brilliant article on upcoming political elections should be flagged because it's off-topic.
- ErrantX 16y agoI won't disagree; although in my mind it is cleaner if the badly written (as in fallacious, factually wrong, ranting, flamebait etc rather than the quality of the writing) is flagged too.