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As I said in a comment to the last time you submitted this question ... Possibly because people are flagging them as fast as possible to avoid being swamped by

As I said in a comment to the last time you submitted this question ... Possibly because people are flagging them as fast as possible to avoid being swamped by the wikileaks flood. Or possibly, as with TSA stories, there's currently a penalty being applied to them. Flagging things moves them down the rankings, just as upvotes move them up. I count between 30 and 40 wikileaks stories submitted in the last 24 hours, and around 130 to 140 in the last 5 days. Personally, I think it's too many, but I'm just a grumpy old man who thinks technology stories, and stories about people in business, are more interesting, and more relevant to HN.

icey 16y ago
Since the first few, I've flagged every wikileaks story that's I've seen on the frontpage because they're almost all rehashes of what's already been on the frontpage, or information you could get from going to cnn.com.
gasull 16y ago
I agree there are sometimes too many stories, but the story of wikileaks.org domain being dropped has enough votes and isn't in the frontpage, and I think it's important enough to be there. Other technology websites are reporting it.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
  > Other technology websites are reporting it. And there is perhaps the main point. I don't come to HN for generic technology stories, I go to other places. I don't automatically flag wikileaks stories, but I've seen the same stories over and over and over again from nearly every tech site I go to, and having them flagged on this site, and hence not reaching the front page, doesn't disturb me. Quite the opposite, it helps to bolster my faith that HN is different, and more valuable.
  - gasull 16y ago
    And there is perhaps the main point. I don't come to HN for generic technology stories, I go to other places. Maybe it's me, but I come to HN for the best stories, "anything that is in the interest of hackers" according to the rules, whether they are reported by other media or not, I don't care.
    - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
      I know you can't downvote me - you're replying to me. And I'm not complaining about the downvote (which someone has reversed, so I've removed my comment) but simply remarking on it. And I'm being saturated with wikileaks stories from every source: twitter, facebook, BBC news, etc, etc. I don't need to get it all over again. My personal opinion, of course, and, as I said, I don't automatically flag them, but every day I just feel enough is enough. 130 submissions in 5 days is excessive.
  - mindcrime 16y ago
    > Quite the opposite, it helps to bolster my faith that HN is different, and more valuable. Exactly. I expect to find a slightly more refined list of news stories at HN, as opposed to, say, the Reddit.com frontpage. Not every generic story that shows up on other "technology news" sites is appropriate for HN. And even more so when most of the stories are just rehashes of the same information, or every minor developments in the overall story (which I find to be the case with most of these wikileaks stories).

icey 16y ago

Since the first few, I've flagged every wikileaks story that's I've seen on the frontpage because they're almost all rehashes of what's already been on the frontpage, or information you could get from going to cnn.com.

gasull 16y ago

I agree there are sometimes too many stories, but the story of wikileaks.org domain being dropped has enough votes and isn't in the frontpage, and I think it's important enough to be there. Other technology websites are reporting it.

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
> Other technology websites are reporting it. And there is perhaps the main point. I don't come to HN for generic technology stories, I go to other places. I don't automatically flag wikileaks stories, but I've seen the same stories over and over and over again from nearly every tech site I go to, and having them flagged on this site, and hence not reaching the front page, doesn't disturb me. Quite the opposite, it helps to bolster my faith that HN is different, and more valuable.
- gasull 16y ago
  And there is perhaps the main point. I don't come to HN for generic technology stories, I go to other places. Maybe it's me, but I come to HN for the best stories, "anything that is in the interest of hackers" according to the rules, whether they are reported by other media or not, I don't care.
  - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
    I know you can't downvote me - you're replying to me. And I'm not complaining about the downvote (which someone has reversed, so I've removed my comment) but simply remarking on it. And I'm being saturated with wikileaks stories from every source: twitter, facebook, BBC news, etc, etc. I don't need to get it all over again. My personal opinion, of course, and, as I said, I don't automatically flag them, but every day I just feel enough is enough. 130 submissions in 5 days is excessive.
- mindcrime 16y ago
  > Quite the opposite, it helps to bolster my faith that HN is different, and more valuable. Exactly. I expect to find a slightly more refined list of news stories at HN, as opposed to, say, the Reddit.com frontpage. Not every generic story that shows up on other "technology news" sites is appropriate for HN. And even more so when most of the stories are just rehashes of the same information, or every minor developments in the overall story (which I find to be the case with most of these wikileaks stories).