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flag articles as appropriate and upvote things you like. edit: though, i admit i'd like to see downvotes on submissions, too, just to see how that would work o
by noodle 16y ago
flag articles as appropriate and upvote things you like.
edit: though, i admit i'd like to see downvotes on submissions, too, just to see how that would work out here. perhaps two front page lists for an experiment. one that shows the results with downvotes counted, one without.
- nailer 16y agoSure, but alas there's now enough new users on HN who upvote general purpose news to the front page that flagging doesn't work anymore. Example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043841 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043841
- noodle 16y agothis was also the case in the election cycle. tons of political stuff that got popular and highly voted didn't go anywhere until (i think) a mod made an executive decision
- jacquesm 16y agoFlags are already downvotes on submissions so even if you don't get enough flags in time to 'kill' the article it will definitely go down in the rankings when it gets more flags.
- noodle 16y agoi know, but to get to something to flag it, you have to perform more clicks. you have to really disagree with something to want to go flag it. a downvote button on the list would make it much more convenient and more likely to get used to tag something mostly off topic but not blatantly bad.
- jacquesm 16y ago> you have to perform more clicks. you have to really disagree with something to want to go flag it. I think that's actually good except for the case where you're flagging spam (it's annoying to have to click twice to flag an obvious spam article when it could have been one click). To have the barrier a bit higher for a thing that will have a large effect is good imo.
- noodle 16y agowhich i think is true for flagging, which is more than just a downvote. make it more inconvenient for the thing that can kill a story or report spam. but for just a downvote, which has the same but opposite effect as an upvote, placing it right below that upvote would be a good location.