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Very meta query, but if you feel you need to disable flags to keep a potentially interesting story on the front page, doesn't that imply that there's something
by mjg59 9y ago
Very meta query, but if you feel you need to disable flags to keep a potentially interesting story on the front page, doesn't that imply that there's something broken with the way the current flag model gets used?
- dang 9y agoI'd say no. The system has a lot of noise in it, so we're never going to get precise results. At a coarse-grained level, my impression is that it's reasonably well balanced, just messy, and it would be a mistake to try for finer-grained control than that. The way we get the latter is by occasionally manually intervening. I know it disappoints some of the systematizers here, but IMO there's no substitute for human judgment being in the mix. HN functions best as a complex system with many feedback loops between community, software, and moderation. (We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182520 and marked it off-topic.)