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That flag indicates users flagged it--it doesn't mean any action has been taken by HN staff. It's essentially been reported to moderators by users, but unless
by zenexer 6y ago
That flag indicates users flagged it--it doesn't mean any action has been taken by HN staff. It's essentially been reported to moderators by users, but unless you see the "[dead]" tag, it remains public and alive on HN.
User-flagged content can be pushed down on the rankings (comparable to a downvote), but if enough people upvote, it shouldn't make much difference.
- xxs 6y agoThe post is gone effectively from HN already. There are enough 'new' accounts (incl. top post) that just press 'flag'
- ciarannolan 6y agoI thought you couldn't flag until you had some minimum level of karma, no?
- xxs 6y agoIt is 51 karma, which is quite low to clear as it takes only 10 to be x-upvote. OP - used to be 140+ points, which should put it easily on the 1st page - but it's flagged and gone.
- ciarannolan 6y agoGot it, thanks. I think I'd be okay with an even higher threshold before you get some kind of quasi-moderation powers. 250-500+ somewhere.
- elliekelly 6y agoI could be mistaken but I thought even though users have the ability to flag a post the post itself doesn’t become “flagged” until several different people flag it.
- xxs 6y agoOf course. That's the point: creating new accounts and getting 51 karma is not hard - there are no requirements to be "different people", just different accounts.
- dang 6y agoThe flags were overwhelmingly by long-established users including many whose past comments suggest that their sympathies would be with CNN in this situation. Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23349814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23349814)? They ask you not to post like this for a reason. The reason is that the posts are nearly always wrong. Probably more than 99% of the time even if one counts generously.
- iso1631 6y agoIt's current story #24, with 222 up points.
- xxs 6y agoThe story likely got reviewed and unflagged. Yet, it just went puff few minutes after making it to top 10 or so while it still had quite massive (140+ or 160+) points. It was gone for quite some hour. The reply was about the fact the upvotes do not work well enough in contrast to flagging.