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Why is this post flagged? Seems like an appropriate HN topic

• marceloabsousa 6y ago
  Agreed.
• dang 6y ago
  The more repetitive a topic gets, the more users flag it. 'Is down' posts are repetitive as a category to begin with, and 'X is down again' posts are repetitive along two axes. There was one of these a few hours ago, before it got flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955595 ... which was likely because users regarded it as a quasidupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935941. By 'quasidupe' I mean it's not strictly the same story, but the difference ('down again') isn't significant enough for the thread to be substantially different. (The submitted title on this one was "GitHub: Here We Go Again".)
  • headalgorithm 6y ago
    I understand your argument, but the number of comments on this post shows people still want to discuss it. Is it possible to run an experiment. Remove the flag option but highlight the hide option to users. Users who are not interested in the topic can remove it from view but do not kill the discussion for those who are interested in it. Then see if the quality of posts/discussions decline.
• jlgaddis 6y ago
  Every "GitHub is down [again]" post leads to the same discussion. With the number of recent GitHub "service disruptions", it starts to get a bit old.