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@dang What's up with this flagging? A contrarian opinion on a tech darling shouldn't be a basis for removal from the front page.
by frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
@dang
What's up with this flagging? A contrarian opinion on a tech darling shouldn't be a basis for removal from the front page.
- jrs235 9y agoApparently enough HN users flagged the story.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoSure and we've seen over-rides before due to misuse of flagging. In this case it seems to me that flagging has been used as a mega-downvote because people don't want a negative story on Shopify, that misuse is bad for the community and silences people who act within the norms and are upvoting articles they want to see. If stories like the below are fine here, I think this story should be fine here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9583196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9583196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8032614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8032614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13200455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13200455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13806397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13806397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15441429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15441429