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Flagging is a separate system from upvotes. It still needs upvotes to be on the front page - which it has.
by sgift 9y ago
Flagging is a separate system from upvotes. It still needs upvotes to be on the front page - which it has.
- rimliu 9y agoWhat difference does it make if it is the same system or the separate one? I am talking about users' will being ignored there on the whim of someone, just because s/he knows better.
- sgift 9y agoFlagging is - as far as I know - not intended as some system to impose the users 'will'. HN does not allow downvoting of submissions. Flagging is a mechanism to remove topics which are off-topic and/or low-quality from HN, not to remove topics some people don't like.
- icebraining 9y agoFlagging allows a relatively small number of users to bury a story before most have had a chance to see it. Often this is good, sometimes it isn't. In HN, it's the mods right and duty to override when latter happens.