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Wonder if the flagging system can be enhanced by having the flagger provide a reason. Maybe having to explain would reduce the incidence of drive-by flagging.
by rdtsc 9y ago
Wonder if the flagging system can be enhanced by having the flagger provide a reason. Maybe having to explain would reduce the incidence of drive-by flagging.
- dang 9y agoI doubt it; my guess is that people would just make up reasons and flag much the same as they do now. The way that upvoting and flagging work seems to be rooted in human nature somehow. What's interesting is how different the two mechanisms are.
- yawaramin 9y agoWould be better to de-anonymise flagging so that we could interrogate flaggers. Show 'flagging's as actions that appear like comments on the page.
- dang 9y agoThere can be few things HN users would like worse than being interrogated.
- yawaramin 9y agoPerhaps 'interrogated' is the wrong word? How about 'discuss'. Since HN is a discussion forum, presumably users are open to discussing their flags and reasons for flagging. If not, just like any other type of discussion, we don't have to give their flag any credence.
- Grue3 9y agoI would like this. Often I want to flag an article because I feel it's of poor quality, but refrain from it because the mods might think I flagged it because of some partisan reason and my flagging rights will be taken away.