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Whichever side you are on this is probably the most important topic discussed in this forum this week. It is also very interesting to a large number of the aud
by reitanqild 9y ago
Whichever side you are on this is probably the most important topic discussed in this forum this week.
It is also very interesting to a large number of the audience.
Yet sadly there seems to be a number of people here who think they have a right to overrule everyone who upvote (and no, I'm not talking about the mods but about the flaggers.)
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- jorgemf 9y agoI have to say that I flagged one of the other post because I was tired of the topic and there weren't adding anything new. But this one is outstanding.
- reitanqild 9y agoUpvoted. Thanks for your honesty. I think this forum could benefit from a larger meta discussion about flagging. I believe we could have closed this faster and with less problems if we allowed the debate to happen and only flagged comments -on both sides- that broke hn guidelines. Instead we now have 50 threads and where people are getting increasingly frustrated.
- jorgemf 9y agoI don't prevent any debating flagging another post saying exactly the same than the last 3 posts (actually I agree with most of the post). You can still comment in the post (I did indeed). I do think people flagged post because they didn't aline with their opinions, but they are in their right. If this is a community site and people decide to flag something, you should accept it (or leave the community if you don't like it). I also consider those flags under the community guidelines because we already have a couple of post about the topic. The debate is happening anyway. Don't get frustrated. I am learning a lot.
- reitanqild 9y agoIf this is a community site and people decide to flag something, you should accept it (or leave the community if you don't like it). Here's where I accept the current rules but suggest looking into whether flags are given too much weight compared to upvotes.
- jorgemf 9y agoProbably you are right with the weight of flaggling. Maybe it is worth to contact the admins. But as a person who created an app for a community, this things are very difficult and no matter where do you put the limit some people are not going to like it.
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- jorgemf 9y agoNow in the second page. so sad...
- occultist_throw 9y agoI attributed it to Googlers that had accounts here, and were running a flag-campaign to keep these articles off of HN. perhaps some of the mods could chime in as to whom was doing the bulk of the flags. Reasoning: its a political hot-potato, with their DoL lawsuit accused of paying women substantially less for the same job. Last thing they needed was more 300+ HN posts every day for a week. Rage-media has mostly moved on to N Korea, or whatever other special cringe-worthy topic.