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I see political news flagged faster and harder. Was David Bowie's death flagged? IMHO, despite all the work done here on censorship and topic management, I've
by WalterSear 8y ago
I see political news flagged faster and harder. Was David Bowie's death flagged?
IMHO, despite all the work done here on censorship and topic management, I've experienced a greater level of meanspiritedness and unkind comments here than on any other comment forum I've frequented.
Perhaps that's >why< there is such a presence and the need to shut down check potentially conttroversial topics. It begs the question of what is different on this forum.
- the-dude 8y agoIf you look at the comments for the Aretha thread as well as this thread, it seems not to provoke any interesting discussion. I am happy to keep such main stream news off the FP.
- WalterSear 8y agoHow does that relate to what I said?
- the-dude 8y agoYou seem to suggest these threads have been 'shut down' ( in reality, user flagged into submission ) due to controversy. I am suggesting these threads were not controversial and were flagged down because they are boring.
- WalterSear 8y agoNot what I was intending to suggest. I was merely noting that it is part of a singular, and heavy-handed, approach.
- krapp 8y ago>Was David Bowie's death flagged? I know I flagged it, I flag every death thread I see. Some of these threads generate interesting discussion, but most of them just descend into maudlin nonsense, nostalgia or a cesspool of political or pop-cultural references. If these people weren't worth discussing on Hacker News when they were alive - and let's be honest, most of them haven't been, then their deaths shouldn't be worth discussing either.