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Why was the [flagged] status for this comment or any below it applied or acted upon? It’s an unequivocally civil thread of discussion about a valid interpretat
by mlthoughts2018 8y ago
Why was the [flagged] status for this comment or any below it applied or acted upon?
It’s an unequivocally civil thread of discussion about a valid interpretation of the parent comment.
To flag and hide this subtree of comments seems like unquestionable misuse of the flagging system for HN. Particularly for this first comment above.
- mmt 8y agoAlthough I agree that flagging (at least your top-level comment) seems a clear abuse of that system (which appears only to have been "acted upon" in a purely automated fashion), commenting on it in-thread (especially without a link to the original, for interested parties ;)) tends not to help. I believe the encouraged best practice is to e-mail hn@ycombinator.com to call the situation to the attention of the moderators. Even if they don't completely agree with your position, I suspect they will at least have a user or two's suspicious flagging behavior to keep under observation and/or revoke.