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There's a bit about flagging in the guidelines -- use your own judgment: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguide
by mquander 9y ago
There's a bit about flagging in the guidelines -- use your own judgment: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure how flags are processed by moderators, but for automated ranking they are like a big downvote.
- grzm 9y agoThe guidelines also ask that we don't comment on flagging: just do it and move on. > "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."