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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696389 https://news.ycombina

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696389 - this one got flagged yesterday, now it is no longer flagged. Wonder what happened.

gus_massa 8y ago
As Tomte said, remember that flags are done by users. Also, when enough users flags the story it gets a penalty and drops in the order, then it gets a [flagged] tag and then it is killed. The numbers of users for each step is not public, it is part of the secret sauce, and may change from time to time without warning. And also the mods can remove the penalty/flag/dead. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706174 "I hate Python. I hate it with a passion" (hackerfactor.com) I'm neither know why it was flagged. Perhaps the title is too linkbaity. Perhaps python fanboys get angry. Some claims are not accurate. I think it's a little too controversial, but I don't agree with the flag. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696389 "The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet" (criticallegalthinking.com) It's too political and about an event outside USA. Both reason will case the article to accumulate flags from two sets of users. In my opinion it's a big event but it's not something new. People don't like to pay more taxes, and government will use any excuse to add more taxes, the word has always be this way. Also, I'm from Argentina, so a big riot from time to time is not surprising :(. I classified this article in the "ignore" bin, no upvote, no flag, no vouch, just ignore it. (My only action is perhaps to go to the comments threads and upvote a few gray comments (that are not offensive or extremely wrong). I think that there are too many downvotes and it's better to minimize the amount of gray comment to have a nice civil conversation.)

gus_massa 8y ago

As Tomte said, remember that flags are done by users. Also, when enough users flags the story it gets a penalty and drops in the order, then it gets a [flagged] tag and then it is killed. The numbers of users for each step is not public, it is part of the secret sauce, and may change from time to time without warning. And also the mods can remove the penalty/flag/dead. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706174 "I hate Python. I hate it with a passion" (hackerfactor.com) I'm neither know why it was flagged. Perhaps the title is too linkbaity. Perhaps python fanboys get angry. Some claims are not accurate. I think it's a little too controversial, but I don't agree with the flag. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696389 "The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet" (criticallegalthinking.com) It's too political and about an event outside USA. Both reason will case the article to accumulate flags from two sets of users. In my opinion it's a big event but it's not something new. People don't like to pay more taxes, and government will use any excuse to add more taxes, the word has always be this way. Also, I'm from Argentina, so a big riot from time to time is not surprising :(. I classified this article in the "ignore" bin, no upvote, no flag, no vouch, just ignore it. (My only action is perhaps to go to the comments threads and upvote a few gray comments (that are not offensive or extremely wrong). I think that there are too many downvotes and it's better to minimize the amount of gray comment to have a nice civil conversation.)