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Moderators respond to flagged posts. Minority viewpoint posts are the ones that are flagged. Popular viewpoint posts are not flagged.

dang 7y ago
Popular viewpoint posts get flagged, as they should, when they break the site guidelines. We couldn't care less if a view is popular or not. What we care about is that discussion follow the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mistermann 7y ago
  Does the rate limiting code take downvotes into consideration?
  - mistermann 7y ago
    Why in God's name would a simple question be downvoted? Dang, do you perchance monitor any habitual downvoting of users by particular other users? edit: lol, downvoted within 2 minutes. Here, I'll make it easy for you mysterious friend, here's another new one for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21545859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21545859
    - dang 7y ago
      Yes, we monitor that. Could you please stop complaining about downvotes in HN comments? As the guidelines say, it never does any good and it makes boring reading. It's a perennial weed of offtopicness. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - mistermann 7y ago
        Considering: - the topic of the article - the amount of other people in this thread complaining about patterns and justification for downvoting - I had been downvoted multiple times for literally asking a perfectly reasonable question (on a topic that one cannot learn by RTFM) - I am regularly downvoted for asking clarifying questions of people who say things that are clearly not true while implying I am saying things that are in no way reflected in the actual text, or have been chosen "at random" and warned about engaging in flamebait in threads where numerous people are doing the same or worse than me, the primary difference being I often happen to hold a minority opinion, in a discussion about opinions (something an increasing number of people struggle to differentiate from fact) ....I didn't think it seemed all that unreasonable. I realize I'm not a model forum participant, and I know you have a hectic and thankless job, but I think it's fair to suggest the possibility that ideology plays a bigger role around here than is optimal, and recognize that all people (including you and I) suffer to some degree from ideological filtering in our judgements. HN having guidelines is a fine idea, but might some common behaviors (say, blatant dishonesty) on this site have varying visibility depending on the observer, and have reached a frequency that may be worthy of reasonable guideline modifications in order to maximize quality of discourse? /rant
  - dang 7y ago
    No.

dang 7y ago

Popular viewpoint posts get flagged, as they should, when they break the site guidelines. We couldn't care less if a view is popular or not. What we care about is that discussion follow the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mistermann 7y ago
Does the rate limiting code take downvotes into consideration?
- mistermann 7y ago
  Why in God's name would a simple question be downvoted? Dang, do you perchance monitor any habitual downvoting of users by particular other users? edit: lol, downvoted within 2 minutes. Here, I'll make it easy for you mysterious friend, here's another new one for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21545859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21545859
  - dang 7y ago
    Yes, we monitor that. Could you please stop complaining about downvotes in HN comments? As the guidelines say, it never does any good and it makes boring reading. It's a perennial weed of offtopicness. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - mistermann 7y ago
      Considering: - the topic of the article - the amount of other people in this thread complaining about patterns and justification for downvoting - I had been downvoted multiple times for literally asking a perfectly reasonable question (on a topic that one cannot learn by RTFM) - I am regularly downvoted for asking clarifying questions of people who say things that are clearly not true while implying I am saying things that are in no way reflected in the actual text, or have been chosen "at random" and warned about engaging in flamebait in threads where numerous people are doing the same or worse than me, the primary difference being I often happen to hold a minority opinion, in a discussion about opinions (something an increasing number of people struggle to differentiate from fact) ....I didn't think it seemed all that unreasonable. I realize I'm not a model forum participant, and I know you have a hectic and thankless job, but I think it's fair to suggest the possibility that ideology plays a bigger role around here than is optimal, and recognize that all people (including you and I) suffer to some degree from ideological filtering in our judgements. HN having guidelines is a fine idea, but might some common behaviors (say, blatant dishonesty) on this site have varying visibility depending on the observer, and have reached a frequency that may be worthy of reasonable guideline modifications in order to maximize quality of discourse? /rant
- dang 7y ago
  No.