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Edit: it seems the story has been unflagged. I'm kinda confused in how the whole thing works.
by curtisblaine 8y ago
Edit: it seems the story has been unflagged. I'm kinda confused in how the whole thing works.
- personjerry 8y agoI vouched it, that's why it was unflagged. I thought it was an interesting other perspective, regardless of which "side" you believe.
- curtisblaine 8y agoThanks!
- curtisblaine 8y agoStill flagged though :(
- covermydonkey 8y agoIt has been flagged again
- mtmail 8y agoI now flagged it, 21 upvotes, and it went into flagged mode again. No idea how many flags cancel out upvotes or how the algorithm really works. In my opinion that's entertainment news, not hackernews material. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Some topics, scandals, even catastrophes are usually completely ignored on HN. The idea is that other websites, the main stream media and large newspaper, sufficiently cover it. I'm not arguing against the story itself. I've read it in the newspaper this morning. Just my expectation when opening HN is not to see/discuss a celebrity paying off a rape victim, regardless the circumstances that led to act. Actually I'm surprised the Weinstein story made the frontpage.
- curtisblaine 8y agoYet a lot of Weinstein stories weren't flagged and two made the frontpage. Looks like bias, so was asking if this kind of implicit bias was common in HN. You flagged Argento's story, did you flag Weinstein's too when it came out?
- DanBC 8y agoYou may want to re-read the guidelines. Especially the bit about emailing the mods.
- curtisblaine 8y agoI'm not asking the mods why Argento's story was flagged. I'm asking the community if HN has a double standard on what news are "acceptable".
- DanBC 8y agoYet again, you don't understand flagging.
- svcop3 8y agoYou probably already know the answer. There is certainly a liberal bias in the readership and that bias in naturally reflected in what is flagged.
- curtisblaine 8y agoThis saddens me. I thought all rapes were equally horrifying, even to liberals :(
- iron0013 8y agoI'm not sure that's true. Every single post about climate change or global warming, for instance--no matter how tech-related the story may happen to be--gets flagged almost immediately. That's not being done by liberals.