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Half the comments in HN are flagged or downvoted. Is it a sign that the HN crowd feels uneasy and divided about China's rising power? Meta comment: wonder if m
by mrb 8y ago
Half the comments in HN are flagged or downvoted. Is it a sign that the HN crowd feels uneasy and divided about China's rising power?
Meta comment: wonder if my comment will get downvoted too when it's just asking a question meant to start an intelligent discussion.
- duxup 8y agoI suspect it has to do with the comment(s). Also there are all of a handful of comments right now, if you're drawing conclusions already I'd say that is flawed from the start. It's all too easy to declare votes are for whatever reason you want to think they are.
- gervase 8y agoHN intentionally flags and removes controversial comments and posts, with the intention to prevent trolling, flame wars, and other detrimental behavior patterns. This is considered a feature, not a bug [0]. This ensures that HN provides a semi-curated discussion weighted towards technical and scientific issues, and against geopolitical or socioeconomic topics, for example. That isn't a statement that these topics shouldn't be discussed, just that they aren't necessarily appropriate for discussion here. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rexpop 8y ago> HN intentionally flags and removes You mean, the forum software itself? Who wrote the algorithm?