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If the flame-war detector is triggered, the mods get alerted and decide whether they're actually dealing with a flame war or not. No need to beg for upvotes.
by yorwba 6y ago
If the flame-war detector is triggered, the mods get alerted and decide whether they're actually dealing with a flame war or not. No need to beg for upvotes.
- ColinWright 6y agoIs that really true? I've not seen them say so, and it's never come up when I've discussed it with them. I'll have to ask ... thanks for the information/suggestion. If people want to keep the item but don't want to give me the votes, feel free to downvote one of my comments. I don't care about the karma, I wanted to see the discussion develop and evolve.
- yorwba 6y agoDang has said so many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20flamewar%20detector%20review&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- ColinWright 6y agoYou're right, I hadn't seen that. I'll remove my comment. Thanks for the information ... today I learned.
- gus_massa 6y agoIIUC the penalty is applied automatically but they get a warning [1] and then they check if the penalty is correctly applied and may revert it. [1] I guess by email, but it may be a SMS or a big red blinking light in the headquarter. Also, perhaps they get the warning when a submission pass a lower threshold and the penalty is automatically applied with higher threshold.